Why do empires fall? A list of recurring patterns. 1) The Game Has Changed -- external macro changes (technological, ecological, economic...) weaken the foundations the empire was built on. E.g. discovery of the Americas and the Cape Route for the Republic of Venice.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1016147860063248384 …
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(this is also how corporate empires fall -- IBM and the rise of personal computing, Microsoft and the rise of the web and then mobile...)
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2) Decadence -- gradual loss of the infrastructure or know-how that allowed the empire to expand (historically, often a communication and transportation network that enabled supervisor military command & control)
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That "supervisor" should be "superior" (damn autocorrect)
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