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Capitalism and America

If our society is rooted in consumerism and requires warm bodies to keep the wheel turning, how can our society continue to exist if people lack the $$ to consume due to paltry wages, and aren't having kids due to cost? ​ I'm sure people will answer the consumerism part with credit cards and labor needs with Immigration / AI. ​ However, there has to be a limit right? Rent keeps rising, wages remain stagnant, credit lines get maxed, eventually consumption will grind to a halt, right? How does the machine continue to work? or at least how does it continue to generate exorbitant profit for the owning class? ​ EDIT: wouldn't it be better for the owner class to pay higher wages so the masses can consume more while also remaining appeased?


If our society is rooted in consumerism and requires warm bodies to keep the wheel turning, how can our society continue to exist if people lack the $$ to consume due to paltry wages, and aren't having kids due to cost?

I'm sure people will answer the consumerism part with credit cards and labor needs with Immigration / AI.

However, there has to be a limit right? Rent keeps rising, wages remain stagnant, credit lines get maxed, eventually consumption will grind to a halt, right? How does the machine continue to work? or at least how does it continue to generate exorbitant profit for the owning class?

EDIT: wouldn't it be better for the owner class to pay higher wages so the masses can consume more while also remaining appeased?

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