The rich will get richer and the unions have been mostly defanged so the poor will be unemployed or on zero-hours contracts; computerisation will get rid of many white-collar jobs (computers can write news articles now, though they're pretty boring), reducing the number of people who are 'middle-class' - or rather having something close to decent pay and conditions because they aren't replaceable cogs in the machine - quite drastically. Gated communities will get a lot more popular.
This could be avoided by introducing a basic income - but that would require foresight, not something the government has much of, so it's more likely everything will go to pot, there'll be riots, hopefully the rise of a proper socialist party that will give the unions back some power. Oh, and what always happens when the government isn't popular: we'll probably decide to go to war, that's always a good distraction.
On the plus side, the riots may not happen if it's easy enough to pirate games, films and tv programs, and people aren't actually starving. Bread and circuses... legalising pot will probably help too.
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