Tell me, how do you see life being in the Consumerism States of America in the future where the handful of mega corporations, that will have been allowed to behave and merge for monopolistic dominance with impunity for decades, will have such power and size that their employees will work in horrifying conditions for wages that barely (if even) can support them, all the while making the very few individuals at the top richer than any individual or group ever would need to be. All in the name of innovation.
You'll have plenty of shiny consumer items to select from (most if not all actually designed and manufactured over seas to keep costs down of course).
And if you are good litle drone you might just keep the current job long enough to scrounge together enough to buy the shiny item, so that it will signal to everyone that you are truly one of the pack that everyone around you so desperately needs to feel as being a part too.
This isn't some scifi reality that won't come to pass.
What worker protection do tech workers in the US actually have? How about the conditions in Amazon's 'fulfillment centers' (this term is down right Stalin-esque btw)? UPS drivers?
How many mergers have there been in the aeronautical sector since WW2 (hint, used to be 50+ companies and now there are 5).
And what is currently happening with the US airline manufacturer (the singular other manufacturer of its size compared to the EU' Airbus)?
I could go on, and on, and on but am hoping that you are smart enough to get the point I'm making.