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The people who lived in Hong Kong are worse off today even outside of political freedoms.
by Retric 2y ago
The people who lived in Hong Kong are worse off today even outside of political freedoms.
- HPsquared 2y agoIt's more "regression" or something. "Collapse" implies a dramatic event and something completely broken.
- Retric 2y agoThe collapse of the Roman Empire took decades and British Empire had a similarly long decline, but I understand your sentiment.
- HPsquared 2y agoYes, Gibbon makes for interesting reading. Decline can indeed be prolonged. I suppose it's like how some things get very slowly better over the decades, other things get very slowly worse over the decades.
- danielbln 2y agoCenturies, not decades.
- Retric 2y agoI originally wrote centuries, but there’s reasonable criticism calling something a collapse when there’s periods of renewal and expansion in that timeframe.