Canada's basically done, imo. The combination of moving away from Oil and automation taking away most jobs will be too much.
Superpowers like the US will be ****ed as well, but they'll hold on longer. They're successfully destroying Canadian Oil so they can continue to hold onto an Oil based economy as long as humanly possible.
The long term order of events in this world is likely going to be
1. Automation, clean energy wipe out most economies
2. Guaranteed minimum income becomes a must regardless of cost
3. Countries that were wiped out earlier and didn't plan for Guaranteed minimum income face major civil unrest
The US is smart, they know there's not much appetite for Guaranteed minimum income in the US so they're going hard on Oil as the world will still need Oil for decades upon decades even if there's a major shift happening.
Canada's doing the dumbest of everything - Slowing Oil production due to activism, not investing heavily in a new direction, not seriously preparing for guaranteed minimum income.
Just directionless and headed for a major fall.
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