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Originally Posted by varmint
Don’t read science fiction. Read history. Just off the top of my head,
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Venezuela
Cuba
China
Cambodia
Germany, pretty much all of continental Europe in the 20th century.
Russia
Detroit
Everything is fine. Until it isn’t.
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Your examples are true - but every group goes through a lifecycle. Isolated examples do not indicate an overall trend.... Rome had its day, so did Germany, Detroit, etc..
They don't really recover - but they do turn into something else...eventually.