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Yes, the article is right. And every time an article like this is published, HN predictably goes into the same tirade. What are you actually going to do about
by usualtuesday 4mo ago
Yes, the article is right.
And every time an article like this is published, HN predictably goes into the same tirade.
What are you actually going to do about it? Nothing. So keep complaining and hoping things change without changing.
- Forgeties79 4mo agoYou’re literally doing what you’re railing against. In fact it’s worse, because it’s not even about the thing itself, but about the commentary on the thing.
- AlecSchueler 4mo agoMaybe if you had some suggestions or wanted to lead by example?
- ifwinterco 4mo agoIt's more evidence if any was needed that the US is now definitively in a late imperial phase of decline - US elites have become corrupt. This is classic decline of empire stuff. So no you can't stop it, but knowing that does at least let you make decisions with more clarity in your own life
- bcjdjsndon 4mo agoI'm just glad I'm alive to witness it. Ww2 is what finally sank Britain's declining empireafter ww1, I'm hoping Iran and maybe a global war finally knocks them off that top spot and the east takes over
- linhns 4mo agoBe careful what you wish for.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- ifwinterco 4mo agoThe lesson from the British empire is it's a slow process, death by a thousand cuts. "There is a great deal of ruin in a nation" and all that. We'll be watching it for the rest of our lives, mostly in slow motion with occasional rapid periods of decline like the one at the moment
- toasty228 4mo ago> What are you actually going to do about it? Discussing it is against this website's TOS and the law in most countries