Myrdal’s missed apocalypse: affluence, technology, & the dual economy: do a wrong short-run forecast by a Swedish social democrat 75 years ago register the right long‑run anxiety for us today? And might post‑apartheid South Africa prefigure America’s technostructural info-bio tech-attention economy structural trap??

**READING: Gunnar Myrdal: "Challenge to Affluence" (1963)**
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2026-06-15