It is creating inequality, economic anxiety, racial division and the destruction of natural systems, all of which are showing up in higher prices, higher crime rates, greater collective neurosis and utter distaste for politicians who are not responding to these realities. It's a crazy society now. It's the richest society ever and yet people are overworked. There's more unemployment, more crime, more confusion, more broken marriages. This is a breakdown.
Every culture breaks down.
Every society breaks down, whether it's Rome, Spain, the British Empire. The people in charge probably didn't get it until they had their heads chopped off.