COVID plus the Boomer Retirement is addressing potential unemployment problems. We're looking at a steadily contracting labor force going into the next decade - possibly the next generation.

But the solution America is angling for isn't growth, its control. Putting labor in a cage it can't break out of, like a century ago when WW1 and WW2 ushered in a golden age for worker's unions. That means we're going to pass through a period of "degrowth" that is considered "good". We're going to put a handful of private interests in charge of trillions of dollars of disposable income, while forcing workers to register into some kind of dystopian piece-work system spanning the entire economy. And the only way you can get anything resembling a slice is to work for them.

Total market consolidation is on the horizon. The economic singularity, so to speak. A retrenchment of the aristocratic class and an abandonment of growth economics in favor of pure command of exigent capital.