There is no way the control freak leftists (as opposed to the “take care of me” and “I care, I’m a good person” sheeperals)
will let the producers out from under their thumbs peacefully.
The question may become “can they hold it together”.
Warchild has the view that it will all fall apart into something approaching a cyberpunk novel (Correct me if I am wrong).
I hope for something more along the lines of the end of the Soviet Empire. Though we don’t have the old memories of dead nations here.
I fear it will be more of a Mad Max film.
But at the end of the day, there are more and more people who depend on the government to support them. History has a lot of examples of this ending very badly. Wars, civil insurrections, death camps, or the more basic starvation when the grain ships stop coming in. Once a society decides to stop taking care of itself, by itself, things don’t end happy.
Warchild may have a different view, but I am a well known pessimist.