Great essay Amanda. But what if the neofeudalism you spoke of is all that the demise of capitalism has to offer along with the demise of democracy. Our new Overlords may wish they had a Black Death (and perhaps they do) to cull all the folks made redundant by AI. The other shoe to drop is climate change. I read a book once called The Promise of the Coming Dark Age, but I fail to see where your optimism, about figuring things out, comes from? Yes, social unrest, but with WMDs? Obviously are current preoccupation with "the way of wank" is not sustainable beyond a few more years, and by then ecological disasters will be more pronounced . Maybe we can slouch toward untopia for a while. Note: https://medium.com/@daneke/slouching-toward-untopia-bf0a92f9d595