The document discusses potential threats to capitalism. It argues that while capitalism seems to be surviving the global financial crisis, predictions of its imminent collapse are misleading. Capitalism is more likely to transform than collapse. It may gain new resilience or change beyond recognition into forms like state capitalism. Any transition away from capitalism would likely take hundreds of years, as it did to transition from feudalism to capitalism. The document also identifies specific threats like growing inequality, environmental degradation, and systemic financial risks that could challenge capitalism's long term viability or cause it to transform significantly. It concludes that while capitalism will not collapse imminently, it will need to change in order to endure long term.