My point is that people too easily think that if things just get a little worse, things will 'collapse'. Show 1/10 of what is happening today to someone living 50 years ago and he'd say that things would have collapsed a long time ago.
And? So things are getting worse and worse and worse as opposed to .... ?
I just pointed out that eventually you get a collapse and used the USSR as an example. You're the one that seems to want to nail down some sort of specifics or predictions, which I haven't even tried to do.
So yes, you got me: I can't predict exactly when it will occur or what it will look like when it happens. I bow to your excellent observation about the limitations of my foresight.
The USSR had a counterproductive economic system that made collapse possible or even likely.
Of course I don't demand that you specifically say when the collapse occurs. Thing is, before you help getting things to even greater sh*t, you better be damn sure that this will lead to good consequences.
How do you know it will 'collapse' rather than things just getting worse and worse and worse?
It's already just getting worse and worse and worse; what's your point?
My point is that people too easily think that if things just get a little worse, things will 'collapse'. Show 1/10 of what is happening today to someone living 50 years ago and he'd say that things would have collapsed a long time ago.
And? So things are getting worse and worse and worse as opposed to .... ?
I just pointed out that eventually you get a collapse and used the USSR as an example. You're the one that seems to want to nail down some sort of specifics or predictions, which I haven't even tried to do.
So yes, you got me: I can't predict exactly when it will occur or what it will look like when it happens. I bow to your excellent observation about the limitations of my foresight.
The USSR had a counterproductive economic system that made collapse possible or even likely.
Of course I don't demand that you specifically say when the collapse occurs. Thing is, before you help getting things to even greater sh*t, you better be damn sure that this will lead to good consequences.