There is no such thing as end stage capitalism. Capitalism, or the free exchange of resources between individuals and collections of individuals will always exist. Because resources will always be scarce. There will never be a time where this is not reality. Only control freak Marxist idealists think this is going to happen. This idea that capitalism will create an abundance that the workers will take control of and somehow manage and sustain indefinitely is utopian hogwash. All that the global communist dream will create is total tyranny that ALWAYS ends up in a complete rejection by the majority of people. A communist may attempt to make all sorts of rules, laws, regulations and enforce them to the point of mass murder. To manage all the resources to distribute “fairly” and “equally” to everyone. But mostly everyone will participate in underground capitalism even if it means being killed by the state or throw in the gulags. Because people are going to do and get what they want. This is the nature of people that control freak idealists will never understand.