I don't envision collapse. Just a slow torpor of decline and subtly increasing dysfunction.
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Ever more dimly aware of its own sadness.
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I know, that's what I'm figuring will happen (and arguably already is).
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Regulatory (political/legal/fiscal) overhead already diverts large swathes of the HOS-capable population into nonproductive work.
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We're already watching higher civilization deteriorate under the strain of it. I wonder if we have enough time.
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Doubt it's that easy given the many interconnected higher-order skillsets a complex society requires to maintain itself.
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Correct. And as the society starts running out of those capable of said higher-order skillsets, it'll have problems (i.e., 3rd world status)
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China will likely win in the long run. It does not have this issue. Though it does have many others, most appear far less terminal.
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Post-industrial liberal democracy is fundamentally dysgenic, due to active redistribution to the bottom and instability in the middle.
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