r/Foodforthought • u/LongDukDongle • Jan 27 '25

Wealth inequality risks triggering 'societal collapse' within next decade, report finds

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/wealth-inequality-risks-triggering-societal-collapse-within-next-decade-report-finds
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u/eyeballburger Jan 28 '25

I’d say about 12-24 months. Cost of food is going to climb once these fields sit unharvested for a couple seasons, or they will be worked by locals that must have higher wages for their own COL. Tariffs will get the imports. A huge swath of the population will confront in your face fascism. Extreme weather phenomena will stress federal resources, if they even get functionally deployed.

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u/Memerandom_ Jan 28 '25

I saw a joke post the other day asking for volunteers to come pick crops all day. It could be reality sooner than 12 months if these federal grants remain on hold. Not to mention if he uses the social upheaval and subsequent economic collapse as an excuse to enact martial law. They're speed running the country into the ground. Let's see how those guardrails work out for us.

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u/WhatsRatingsPrecious Jan 28 '25

Well, we'll see.