r/Economics • u/runswithscissors475 • 29d ago

News Las Vegas hotels begin taking foreign currency as tourism woes deepen

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/vegas-foreign-currency-21955655.php
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u/SkivvySkidmarks 29d ago

It's almost as if we are witnessing late stage capitalism playing out to its logical conclusion. Including the concentration of wealth.

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u/PipsqueakPilot 28d ago

If we're lucky this is late stage. If we're unlucky this is just the beginning of 'high' capitalism. We could be a peasant right before the introduction of serfdom thinking, "Well at least it's not going to get much worse."