
Originally Posted by
Thondalar
Well yes, in a sense. The unfortunate reality(inconvenient truth?) is that our civilization has been building up to that very thing for generations now...you can't honestly look at the almost 18 TRILLION DOLLAR deficit and be like "oh, it's a percentage of GDP, we're fine"...I've previously linked visual references to what 18 trillion dollars actually looks like, IRL...it's somewhat akin to a person standing next to a nuclear-class aircraft carrier...except instead of a ship it's just piles of money. Pallets of money. Stacked a hundred feet high and a thousand feet deep. All 100's.
"Let civilization collapse" is going to be what it becomes, because, in our ignorance, we've managed to find ways to manage lesser failures, in spite of the whole...the principle still exists, and always will. It always has.