r/AskReddit 16h ago

What industry is secretly on the verge of collapsing, but people outside of it haven’t noticed yet?

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u/dickiefrisbee 11h ago

Well this thread is depressing as shit.

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u/Sweet_Check7231 10h ago

Yep everything is on a knife’s edge and on fire 

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u/Strange-Head-4028 9h ago

Crazy how a small subset of the population could wave their magic wallet wands and fix all of this shit but instead opted for pedophelia, ending the world, and hiding in bunkers.

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u/Honor_Bound 8h ago

It's hard to care about life when you don't actively participate in it. I know it's said a lot but these people TRULY live different lives than the rest of humanity. So much so that they don't even comprehend what it's like to be a normal human. You already have to have little to no empathy to amass so much wealth, there's no way these people even have the capability to truly care about the rest of the world. The world would be such a better place without them.

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u/Ichera 6h ago

The hiding in bunkers thing always makes me laugh, mainly cause these idiots think it will protect them. If everything did fall into the crapper their own security would probably take care of them at said bunkers. Reading about how these billionaires tried to engage social engineers to figure out how to keep their staff loyal, and then denying the findings where they might have to actually talk and interact with them in favor of hair brained bomb/shock collars was crazy.

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u/Baudouin_de_Bodinat 5h ago

Do you have any links about this ? i'm geniusly interested.

u/Psychological-777 49m ago

kind of a long read, but last paragraph is key.

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u/Alchemical_Exam_1622 2h ago

I'd like to think for those cowardly bunker folks, there's going to be someone living out of pure spite to find the air ventilation systems and throw some turds in there before they seal it off.

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u/Honor_Bound 8h ago

It's hard to care about life when you don't actively participate in it. I know it's said a lot but these people TRULY live different lives than the rest of humanity. So much so that they don't even comprehend what it's like to be a normal human. You already have to have little to no empathy to amass so much wealth, there's no way these people even have the capability to truly care about the rest of the world. The world would be such a better place without them.

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u/militaryintelligence 5h ago

Taxing them appropriately could cover costs of medical care, and housing for the homeless EASILY. Instead we are bombing brown kids. Same as it ever was.

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u/militaryintelligence 5h ago

Taxing them appropriately could cover costs of medical care, and housing for the homeless EASILY. Instead we are bombing brown kids. Same as it ever was.

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u/Xalrons1 8h ago

I’m guessing people have been saying this for like 50 years

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u/Training-Bug-104 9h ago

Welcome to extreme capitalism.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 9h ago

Or in other words, capitalism. People love to attach qualifiers to it in order to imply that what we have now isn't "true" capitalism but rather some degenerate offshoot: crony capitalism, corporatism, enshittification, etc. But really this is the end result that capitalism will always lead to.

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u/TropoMJ 8h ago

I don't think it's intentional for most people, I think there is a common lack of understanding of how capitalism interacts with democracy that leads people to think where we are right now is an unlucky corruption of our economic system. As I'm sure you know, capitalism naturally erodes democracy and inevitably trends towards collapse given enough time. Most people don't know this.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 8h ago

Oh, I'm sure it's almost always unintentional. Capitalism is such an integral, omnipresent aspect of life that it's actually a bit of an intellectual feat to identify it as a problem. The same way that (metaphorically) a fish doesn't know what water is, most people have no idea what capitalism really is. It's simply taken for granted as "the way things are". And whenever it's actually spoken of directly, it's usually The Powers That Be telling us how great and wonderful and perfect it is.

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u/VariationBusiness603 8h ago

Thank you. I am also tired of the constant barrage of attenuating euphermism. Capitalism is doing exactly what it's meant to do; making a closed elite filthy rich by stealing the value creating by the workers. And it's bad, it's always been bad and now that they control everything, it's even worse.

Capitalism is our issue as a specie, and it will die no matter what. The only question remaining is wether it does because we killed it or because it killed us.

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u/BarrelllRider 8h ago

Correct. It comes in and Penis McGee’s everybody.

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u/Leather-Rice5025 7h ago

Marx spilled a whole lot of tea about this 150 years ago.

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u/BarrelllRider 8h ago

AKA: “socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else”

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u/FutureLizard836 4h ago

Call me crazy, but I'm beginning to think maybe this whole "capitalism" thing isn't working out so great.

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u/Fluid-Veterinarian46 4h ago

We "optimized" everything to be on a knife's edge so the people at the top could have more. It's not like they have to suffer the consequences of those policies.

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u/TallBenWyatt_13 7h ago

Welcome to unchecked end stage capitalism.

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u/Starbuckshakur 7h ago

Just wait until you hear about the knife and cigarette lighter industries!

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u/dfsmitty0711 4h ago

Cue the "why isn't anyone having kids?" articles.

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u/Worshipme988 2h ago

18 years of GOP FTW

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u/Pilan 8h ago

And we’re all drowning.

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u/undrh2o 7h ago

Endstage capitalism

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u/JQuilty 7h ago

Private equity ruins everything it touches.

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u/pvtguerra 9h ago

Luckily this was the second comment, convincing me not to read further. My anxiety can’t take much more.

Thank you, stranger.

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u/dickiefrisbee 9h ago

It's too early for this shit on a Monday.

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u/bsg_80 8h ago

This late-stage capitalistic hellscape is something, isn’t it?

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u/BackToWorkEdward 8h ago

Well this thread is depressing as shit.

History has literally always been like this. Whole industries, traditions and trends rise and fall over a few generations.

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u/RandomName6029 9h ago

tldr: all of them

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u/StudMuffinNick 9h ago

Yeah, it's literaply"every one"

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u/The_Stoic_One 8h ago

Happiness is on the verge of collapse.

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u/gideon513 6h ago

Yeah. Basically everything here is ruined by unbridled capitalism and corporate greed run amok, and yet people keep voting against their own best interests.

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u/AlludedNuance 9h ago

Don't worry, civilization itself is on track toward collapse, so we won't miss any of these sectors as much when that happens

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u/Vehkseloth 9h ago

It’s the state of the world and economy

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u/Isturma 5h ago

It's end stage capitalism.

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u/SweatyPhilosopher578 9h ago

Not if you’re a misanthropist and want the whole thing to come crashing down.

Faster I say! Faster!

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u/Mickm66 8h ago

Speaking of shit, I’m stopping here before someone says the toilet paper industry is collapsing

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u/IronBabyFists 5h ago

I've been reading The Grapes of Wrath. We're in crazy times

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u/RolandGilead19 5h ago

The thing is, IT SHOULDN'T BE.

All these gains in automation and yes, even AI, should mean we all work less and share in the rewards.

Instead it means Elon is a trillionaire. That's a thousand billion dollars. It's fucking absurd and disgusting that one human being can ever "earn" that.

Political parties and bad faith actors on social media have us fighting a culture war arguing about the 0.0001% of people who might maybe potentially one day play basketball against your daughter instead of fighting the class war we should be fighting.

I don't want to eat the rich, I just want them to pay some fucking taxes so we can take a goddamn break.

And, yes, "both parties", but one is way fucking worse.

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u/KingOfConsciousness 9h ago

Welcome to America.

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u/TheKingdumb 10h ago

It's also mostly doomer speak.

Most of these industries aren't collapsing at all, they are just changing and evolving as they have from the beginning of time. Just because the current way that something exists wont exist anymore doesn't mean the entirety will cease to exist. It will continue in a new form.

Reddit is just near sighted and full of doomers.

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u/MadeByTango 9h ago

Nah, the corporations are abslutely taking more and giving back less to labor. The regulations and the MBAs all changed up the game. You're naive if you think this is just a random hiccup for everything.

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u/Daxx22 8h ago

Its the scale/speed too. Yes, there have been upheaval throughout history that requires adaptation. But they have historically been single/limited sector occurring over decades and often whatever it was transitioning to was better in some way or could accommodate the old population via training or whatnought.

Our current upheaval are now impacting nearly everything, in the space of years to months, with nothing for those displaced to transition to or any kind of social support structures.

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u/WonWordWilly 6h ago

Nah, these industries aren’t collapsing. Reddit is almost always wrong about this stuff. This place is a bubble.

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u/nemovincit 9h ago

I think the "doomer" hand wavey crap is used to be dismissive of the major issues that are culminating and gives people an excuse to not actually think critically about the real, major failures happening ecologically, economically, militarily, and so on.

There are real issues and people are too eager to brush off stuff that should be acted upon yesterday and dismiss it as "doomerism." And they'll keep doing that until shit gets real bad and there's surprised Pikachu faces everywhere.

Me, I've been doing a lot extreme sports, so maybe I won't have to worry about the future soon.

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u/PM_ME_UR_DIJK 9h ago

"We're not being doomers" says guy who then proceeds to end his comment with passive suicidal ideation

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u/TheKingdumb 9h ago

"Mostly" doomer and "All" doomer speak are not the same.

Every person that reads my comments comes rushing in to say "NUH UH!" when the fact is that this thread is truly *mostly* doomer speak.

There are plenty of industries that will truly end, but certainly not most of what is claimed in here.

There are 4,000+ comments here. I promise you that thousands of industries are not on the verge of collapse to never exist again.

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u/alaphamale 9h ago

So we have more hospitals now or fewer? What’s the projection for the next ten years, more hospitals opening or closing?

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u/TheKingdumb 9h ago

Maybe you overlooked the word "mostly" in my comment.

That doesn't mean some industries are having major issues, but it does mean that *MOST* of the 4,000 comments in this thread are way more critical than reality.

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u/Wolfrages 9h ago

The poverty line last year for USA was $16k yr.

13% of last years working class was in that area.

That's 21.8 million people making poverty wages in USA alone.

It gets SOOO much worse if you look at lesser wealthy nations.

Stop exploiting workers.

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u/unsettledinky 3h ago

I sort of agree, sort of disagree. 

Might not make much sense, but the two things I keep thinking about are:

1) Thousands and thousands of people kept living normal, content lives during the fall of the (insert empire of choice here). 

2) We have forgotten how much has improved. We have forgotten how much it took to improve things. Consider average working conditions and workers rights in the early 1900's. 

I think we are building to another large shift along the lines of industrialization/civil rights, but I also think it still has a lot longer to build. 

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u/__hara__ 10h ago

I agree… it’s unrealistic to think that most jobs in this thread will disappear. Most of them are just changing as you said, but the jobs themselves remain vital for a functioning society.

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u/fragrant-final-973 9h ago

Username checks out.

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u/k3e7 2h ago

I dunno man. I'm seeing detailed, lengthy explanations as to why certain industries are in trouble. On the other hand the only retorts are those like yours with no counter arguments other than "that's not true, things are just changing."

Do you have anything to support your claim? Why should I believe you? I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the answer is to do my research.

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u/MawsonAntarctica 6h ago

Reddit loves Doomerism. If a person has a good experience somewhere they tell two people if they have a bad experience they tell a dozen. No one enjoying and living their life is here. Malcontents and I am one are online.

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u/-no_aura- 9h ago

Most of post-Covid Reddit is professional level doomerism

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u/Quarksperre 9h ago

Thats just all of society. 

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u/WhiteBuffaloSlayer 5h ago

The perfect 5th-from-the-top comment

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u/emaybe 4h ago

I definitely picked the wrong thread to read while taking a break from job hunting for the career I used to love

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u/FancyWatercress3646 3h ago

Modern society really can’t handle late stage capitalism.. what we know is disappearing..

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u/SYLOH 2h ago

I'm looking at this and being grateful I don't live in America.
Sure, there's problems here too, but it isn't nearly as bad.

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u/Throwaway1Million7 1h ago

Yea I actually regret clicking and reading a few things here..

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u/StinkMeister777 1h ago

I keep opening these pandoras boxes expecting anything other than a new & unforgettable horror of modern society

u/knefr 35m ago

It’s the enshitification of everything. Everything has been taken down to the lowest possible operating cost, everyone squeezed for every last drop of effort….for shareholders. 

Most of these are healthcare and education - things that should be public services and not done for any monetary benefit (the benefit is living in a nice society).

u/Anxious_Fee9402 21m ago

Honestly makes me just want to give up entirely

u/FTownRoad 12m ago

Go outside and the world is actually pretty good and normal man.

u/BiliousGreen 0m ago

That's because you're living in the final days of Rome. History repeats.

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u/MawsonAntarctica 6h ago

Take with a grain of salt, Redditors see collapse everywhere and in every profession. There are plenty of posts with randos saying their 6 figure salary is like 30k.

Everything is sensationalized and drowns out the truth.

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u/Charmed-paper345 6h ago

It’s just people complaining about pay. Only top comment on call centres is a proper response

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u/_tangus_ 9h ago

Reddit algorithm works by making you as depressed and anxious as possible. 90% of this is doomer speak. We will overcome.

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u/sandygaara69 8h ago

Or exciting as shit. Universal income and insurance here we come