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Originally Posted by Bruze
What was a huge factor in the collapsing of many global empires throughout history?
Fighting "endless foreign wars," and debasing the currency to pay for them -- i.e. inflation. Sound familiar? 
Nixon really kicked it off in 1971 by delinking the dollar from gold, to help pay for the Vietnam War. The inflation (by .gov controlling the money supply) has been ongoing since (it was before that too, just not as bad).
I'd love to put all this current mess on Biden's shoulders, but it's a century-long problem. The problem is government, not which "team" happens to be running it.  |
Being not too distantly related to Chimps and Bonobos, we humans have an innate tendency to fight. As humankind has developed technology, that fighting is ever more expensive.
Amassing tax dollars allows the chimps running the show to flex their monkey muscles at the chimps somewhere else.