The pain is already happening. Food scarcity - and inflation - will happen before financial collapse and government collapse.
It's already localised - currently coffee and cocoa - but at some point staples will affected. Which is when it gets interesting.
This is the most incredible time in recorded history. There's never been a civilisation facing so many extreme existential threats at the same time.
And all of them are self-inflicted, and would have been sidestepped or mitigated by a rational planetary culture - climate change, war (possibly nuclear), pandemics, catastrophic economic destruction, and AI.
Unfortunately, the average consumer has no idea that high coffee or chocolate prices have anything to do with the climate change. Apparently the average economical understanding is at the level of believing a president can magically make grocery prices come down.
It's already localised - currently coffee and cocoa - but at some point staples will affected. Which is when it gets interesting.
This is the most incredible time in recorded history. There's never been a civilisation facing so many extreme existential threats at the same time.
And all of them are self-inflicted, and would have been sidestepped or mitigated by a rational planetary culture - climate change, war (possibly nuclear), pandemics, catastrophic economic destruction, and AI.