Eventually the mud gets us to a breaking point. We have a lot of names for this. Marxists will chime in right here with "consumption crisis:" the inequality becoming so pronounced that business can no longer find anyone with money to spend on their products, seizing the economic machine as a whole.
So the questions of our moment are:
How close are we to the breaking point?
Do we need to actually REACH the breaking point to address a crisis?
What will people demand in the event of the breach?