Somewhat more seriously, technological change offers challenges to the extant construction of capitalism, and QC certainly presents more than enough technological change, in a decidedly compact timeframe, for there to be serious disruptions compared to the baseline condition of the early-2000s (while the exact amount of time that has lapsed in-universe is unclear, it's been less than ten years, plausibly QC is running at around 1/4-1/3 of real time). This makes at least some discussion of changes from a business-as-usual scenario not only appropriate, but necessary. For example, today's comic openly states that the existence of AIs has transformed how certain critical infrastructure operates, to the point that AIs - assuming they were able to act collectively, which based on everything we've seen of QC AIs is even less likely than for humans - could functionally shut down industrial society at any time. Even individual AIs may have considerable power, such as the once-referenced 'nuclear power plant AIs' since turning off a nuclear power plant has regional-level consequences.

If anything, QC doesn't talk about this nearly enough, even with regard to things that directly impact the characters. For example, AIs are having some kind of impact on the Northampton housing market, but we don't know the scale of that because we have no idea how many AIs there are, nor do we have any sense of the direction this impact is running.