• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      It’ll destroy capitalism by creating many new causes of poverty. There won’t be enough food, water or shelter and it’s not going to be fun.

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    I want to say “don’t threaten me with a good time”, but we all know the first people to face the consequences of late-stage capitalism imploding are the ones that deserve it the least.

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    I’m glad something is destroying capitalism.

    Wish we didn’t pick “the hard way” but here we are.

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    It will destroy capitalism by first destroying everyone and destroying every economic system everywhere.

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      If the US economy collapses because they elected a bunch of idiotic fascists rather than admit climate change is real, I don’t know if corporations and the CIA will have enough money to fund enough mercenaries and propaganda to keep socialist revolutions suppressed. So maybe we will see actual left-wing economic systems popping up globally over the next couple years.

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        Judging from past experience and history … they’ll probably burn the world first before that happens.

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    Unfortunately, a lot of the cash on hand for insurers comes from selling financial instruments like annuities. Annuities are something that retirees buy with their life savings to provide a fixed income. If the insurance industry goes bankrupt, it’s taking a lot of people with it.

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      It was their brokerage division recommending investing in Air Conditioning industry.

      OP is a major statement by an insurer.

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    Is there a “Goldilocks” zone where capitalism is destroyed but some humans survive?

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      I can imagine it in a situation where we effectively go back to the stone age, with little to no trade between the small (<50) communities

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        Iron age is plausible. Or the axial. Those were agrarian based economies. Some books would survive and preserve some knowledge.