That said, there's an interesting question in there. If our society were starting into a technological collapse, what would it look like? And how would it look different than what our current world looks like?
I'm not sure I buy that this is what's happening. But looking around, I see enough that might be evidence that I can't rule it out...
Basically we wouldn't know that an ongoing collapse is happening but everything would get slightly shitter and shitter with older legacy processes being unfixable once they break because none of that knowledge is being passed down.
Great video on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3OCFfDStgM
And Akimov would have taken the morally correct decision if he had beaten him up.
So: Can a single-earner family today buy a house, a car, and send their kids through a good education system?
Is the US still capable of launching men into space, let alone sending several at a time to the Moon and back safely?
Can a normal wage-earner still afford several weeks of hospital care?
50 years ago, we would be answering 'Yes' to all three of these questions.
