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I don’t think it’d be so dramatic or immediate. At least I hope not. More just the downward slide of shittiness that’s been happening, and vastly more people not coping or able to get basic needs met.
A worsening of the mental health crises and violence in the CBD, even more homeless than now. Increased health care burden due to drug use, heat stroke, assaults or malnutrition.
Possibly arrests turning violent because people are increasingly being forced to squat and getting evicted plus the right to protest has been gradually eroded by laws. Climate change slowly gets really bad and wrecks people in cheaply built houses. (Tbh that’s already happening.)
I really hope things can improve. Plus between depressed wages and rising costs it could get to the point where people are literally unable to buy shit and the economy fails anyway.
Edit: Mutual aid is one way but honestly I’m no longer able to do it