Website review: Closing the 'Collapse Gap': t...
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- Faz465 rated 6 weeks ago
- optimize for maximum free time and don't strive for economic achievement? is that meant to help? (as long as people invest their income in durable goods)
Inflective rated 3 months ago- From the page: "Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US by Dmitry Orlov"
- chperret rated 4 months ago
- a comparison of socio-economical and political-corporate data between USSR and USA, showing that The United States are in a possible collapse situation, as and worst than the Soviet Union. Easy language, simple facts, maybe a superficial understanding of the question: using such a vulgarization the author can be right or wrong. My only and permanent conclusion is that, after a good reading of Marx economical work, I can't distinguish a fundamental difference between communist monopolistic corporate state control (as USSR) and monopolistic corporate capitalism controlling the state (as USA). Maybe is to be found here the quality of the actual Chinese economico-political philosophy: communist monopolistic state controlling corporate monopolistic capitalism.
- Gorbichov rated 4 months ago
- I am getting a work visa for Russia.
- CyberVigilantes rated 4 months ago
- From the page: "Closing the 'Collapse Gap': the USSR was better prepared for collapse than the US" essential preparation for the forthcoming collapse of the global economy.
- Prayers-for-rain rated 4 months ago
- Why ex-USSR was better prepared for economic collapse than the USA will be. We don't have to wait too long before checking it out.
- meta4r rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "It is certainly more fun to watch two Capitalist parties go at each other than just having the one Communist party to vote for. The things they fight over in public are generally symbolic little tokens of social policy, chosen for ease of public posturing. The Communist party offered just one bitter pill. The two Capitalist parties offer a choice of two placebos. The latest innovation is the photo finish election, where each party buys 50% of the vote, and the result is pulled out of statistical noise, like a rabbit out of a hat."
- hunza rated 7 months ago
- Definitely a frightening read, especially since I'd be in the middle of all this. Still a worthy read, especially with the final two slides.
- sillydog2112 rated 7 months ago
- Yes, it is coming. What are you doing about it? Go down to the end to find out what you can do.
- Orion67 rated 7 months ago
- All in all, a very, very interesting article. If stumbleupon allowed to give three thumbs-up at once, this one would get it. It's not like I agree 100% with this guy, but what I agree already makes me afraid, very afraid. After you read, it all seems common sense, like you already had thought of that, but listening from another person is chilling. Sure, you can argue this guy's whole argument depends on the US collapse (and because of globalisation, we could say world collapse), and that may not happen, at least not in the near future. Maybe. But that is not what it looks like. Today's global economy looks too much artificial. I think the biggest threat to humanity right now is food shortage, be it due to droughts from global warming (or just droughts), a new virulent pest to today's wide plant monocultures, a sudden drop in agricultural productivity, or perhaps a lack of means to distribute the food due to oil shortage. It doesn't matter the reason. Food shortages may take millions of lives away and wreak havoc with economic and social stability. Another serious issue is water shortage, but since water is already pretty much local resource, I think it may be easier to cope with it. I'm not saying we should despair and give up hope. It's the opposite. But we need to plan and change something in the way we live today, and this article gives lots of food to thought.
