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@dan613 amusingly, Engels identified this problem within capitalism over a century ago

Ever since the beginning of this (19th) century, the condition of industry has constantly fluctuated between periods of prosperity and periods of crisis; nearly every five to seven years, a fresh crisis has intervened, always with the greatest hardship for workers, and always accompanied by general revolutionary stirrings and the direct peril to the whole existing order of things.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm