Well, along comes AI, making human labor much less needed for most corporations. These corporations shed as many workers as they can, which is great for profits until the corporations run out of customers able to buy because they are unemployed. So the Capitalist system grinds to a halt until an otherwise unimagined economic and social system arises, possibly after the great climate calamity and population die-off. Perhaps, the surviving humans will have learned to cooperate to the extent that they can evolve a new system that is not based on greed.
Well, along comes AI, making human labor much less needed for most corporations. These corporations shed as many workers as they can, which is great for profits until the corporations run out of customers able to buy because they are unemployed. So the Capitalist system grinds to a halt until an otherwise unimagined economic and social system arises, possibly after the great climate calamity and population die-off. Perhaps, the surviving humans will have learned to cooperate to the extent that they can evolve a new system that is not based on greed.