One might say we’re already there. Median wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. Housing prices are at an all time high, pushing rents higher and higher. Our service economy, upon which many stagnating nations thrive, was hit hard by COVID-19.
At the same time, REITs are poised to purchase the impeding foreclosure and eviction-driven dive in housing with all cash offers, bolstered by the same 0% interest rate that drove the prices in the retail sector to stave off the pandemic depression. Yet those low interest rates in the retail sector make this corporate takeover possible.
Plenty statements with citations that don't really support the claims made directly but instead paraphrase the claims in the introduction of some paper (turtles all the way down)
Article size has grown whilst increasing noise to signal ratio (I guess you could call it an opinion)
Influence by certain groups with a selfish interest in editing the content, and more authority given to established editors
Those are the ones that come to mind at the moment
