The rise of fascism will continue in the West, to the benefit of billionaire techbros. The very rich wil live in unimaginable luxury and technology. The rest will fall increasingly into third world poverty, leading a very low-tech existence when out of the office. Most employment will be of a gig nature; those who have a regular position will sign themselves into what amounts to indentured servitude. Education will be work oriented and provided through long apprenticeship.

Following a string of economic disasters, the United States will abolish all social services. These will be available from the private sector at very high prices. The use of highways, police and fire, will all follow a subscription model.

Retirement will be death; the existing elderly will be killed off through systematic denial of health care. As public trust in science dies, modern medicine will become unavailable to most. Traditional practices like “healing women” will be all most workers can access. Diseases such as diphtheria, polio, measles will be endemic. Viral outbreaks such as COVID-19 and H5N1 will regularly decimate the non-wealthy population.

Women will be second class citizens, with strong legal barriers to independence. Arranged marriage will be common, and young girls will be exploited by rule of law. No birth control will mean a skyrocketing birth rate, but childhood death will.be endemic. Evangelical Christianity will be the instrument of social control.

In a fascist society, a constant state of war is necessary. The United States and Europe will be subject to Russia, and war with China is inevitable, probably in the form of small brush fire wars all over the world. Eventually, manpower and natural resources will begin to diminish. Widespread incompetence will hamper the military. As the war machine weakens and can’t hold us together by force, countries like the United States may become balkanized, dividing by language or culture.