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My takeaway is that noone knows why nations decline. People just grasp at straws trying to retrofit their theories to explain the past and present. To say that
by kaycey2022 3y ago
My takeaway is that noone knows why nations decline. People just grasp at straws trying to retrofit their theories to explain the past and present. To say that a country like the UK which produces products like the Raspberry Pi and companies like ARM, is having a "human capital problem that affects every layer of society" seems bizarre.
- smitty1e 3y agoMy theory is that "nation" is so much synechdoche. That is, a symbol referring to the reality of a snapshot of a population. The population sloshes about, a sea of people called a nation, but there is a continuous ebb and flow of greatness and depravity. Continuity is the issue. A David begets a Solomon, and zenith takes a turn for nadir in Rehoboam. Why? The struggle that made the David great is unknown to the Rehoboam. Decadence and collapse follow. Wash, rinse, repeat.
- csomar 3y agoIt's not like the UK has become a third-world country. I think the comparison is relative to their past rather than an absolute one.
- gsatic 3y agoThats the best our 3 inch chimp brains can do, in the face of complex ever changing systems. People have been saying the Post Office is dead for about 100 years now, yet number of post offices in the world havent declined.