[kube-system]

It hasn’t collapsed yet because the people who predict a collapse keep cherry picking data to justify their doomsday predictions.

There are just as many or more indicators that things are going great.

Yes, we’ve had some road bumps here in the past couple years, but that’s on the tail of the strongest expansion of the world economy in human history.

At the end of the day, the strength of the economy is just a matter of the exchange of goods and services. As long as people are working and spending, the rest is just microeconomic noise.

[api]

Society will collapse once absolutely nobody is predicting collapse.

If there's still a chorus predicting collapse, we're not there yet.

Then, once everyone is convinced we are now in a permanent dark ages and all advanced civilization is at an end, it will rebound.