So we've been in the "late stages" for at least 50 years? Is there any sort of falsifiable hypothesis there? https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=lat

So we've been in the "late stages" for at least 50 years? Is there any sort of falsifiable hypothesis there? https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=late-stage+capitalism&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=late-stage+cap... You can see from Google Ngram Viewer that there's almost no usage before the year 2000, and the vast majority of usage is post-2015. My guess would be that recent usage has only a tenuous connection, at best, to scholarly usage from 50+ years ago.