re: How close do you feel we are to a full societal collapse as a nation?

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I think authoritarianism is a big risk but I think massive, Argentinian style inflation is what will sink the empire. Particularly if the dollar stops becoming the World's reserve currency.

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I guess it depends on what you mean by societal collapse. I'm picturing dogs and cats living together mass hysteria, while I don't consider the end of American hegemony or even hyper-inflation to, by themselves, be 'societal 'collapse.'

Things will definitely suck a lot more, we might be planting turnip gardens, but society has endured those things before.

Those conditions could absolutely trigger a collapse though.

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Particularly if the dollar stops becoming the World's reserve currency.

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This is a big deal, but it helps that China’s economy is sucking wind, and their priorities have changed to align behind a more traditional communist party. That probably buys the dollar another couple decades as reserve currency at least.

Authoritarianism is the near-term danger, not collapse.