What’s your realistic worst-case scenario for the state of the world in 2024, setting aside Hollywood-style apocalyptic imagination?
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President Trump has successfully added constitutional amendment to allow unlimited terms. Civil war starts as the rich adopt technocracy as savior.
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Wish I could tell you mine but being a responsible CEO disallows me from stating opinions that might offend potential customers.
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Basically, the trucking fleet stops.
Areas that went all-in to car culture post WWII in total disarray/martial law (attempted) mass migrations (we already have lots of cages and for-profit prisons -- remember worst-case scenario) food riots.
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Multiple ongoing civil wars in major countries, disruptions in food supplies to the rest of them, refugee crises, economic volatility, breakdowns in international trade.
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Energy return on energy invested hits an event horizon which can no longer support industrial civilization, and we haven’t achieved escape velocity with renewables yet. Everything interlinked with oil suffers (transport of food and water, shipping, air travel)
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Flock of Black Swans ravages fragile USA, financial system gorges on the market moves, exacerbating the destruction.









