That's a good question. If the current market model of economics has failed -- and if it's not providing a significant majority with economic opportunity than it has -- we're on the cusp of a change in political organization of states as great as any we humans have experienced since the Renaissance and the subsequent end of the age of feudalism. Whatever comes next isn't going to be communism, but may be some kind of socialism with managed economies. China was making progress on that front for a while, but is right now having problems with bureaucrats who aren't the enlightened Confucians needed to intelligently manage a large and dynamic state.

Or heck, we might get something like Neal Stephenson's claves.