As anyone with ambitions other than living as a hermit (or who doesn’t possess a unique gift for kleptomania) will tell you, capitalism can still very much be described as “a thing”.
Some people think the move to postcapitalism will be inevitable due to the laws of economics; others believe a postcapitalist system must be designed to deliberately correct the flaws of the current system.
The most optimistic scenario: a future society “in which work is eliminated, scarcity replaced by abundance, and where labour and leisure blend into one another,” according to author and journalist Aaron Bastani.
But there are many other possible outcomes if we don’t make the right choices: the continued destruction of the environment, democracies hijacked by corporate power, on-going financial instability, and future generations living in constant peril.
Oh, and before we forget, the super-rich living like movie villains/feudal barons on militarized compounds in New Zealand. (There’s something for New Zealand to look forward to.)