So I've been reading some material from a purposefully opposing perspective. From what I've put together, it's possible that what we're witnessing is a desperate attempt to prevent a spiral into chaos caused by massively decreasing birth rates. Furthermore, these combination of events are positioned to make US an economically dominant super power in the coming couple centuries:
- Most countries (including China and Brazil) are already on a terminal demographic decline. This means they cannot maintain their population much less their current quality of life with their existing citizens.
- Mass migration combined with medicine birth rates in the US might be enough to prevent terminal decline. Same is true for certain European states.
- "Covid" disrupted export heavy economies such as China far more than technocracies (US/EU) or mercantile states.
- "Ukraine" conflict and green policies are ways of minimizing the potential leverage of emerging competitive states. Reducing reliance on energy as an export prevents its use as geopolitical tool.
- People spend a majority of the money they're going to spend in their lifetimes between the age of 25-40. College loan bailouts prop up the banks, the universities, and stimulate spending within this cohort. This will help stem deflationary pressure if the demographic collapse.
And when feudalism breaks down it turns into tribalism