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Hard Times Create Strong Men…
I saw this on Facebook this morning. I thought it might be oversimplified or exaggerated — I went to ask a Roman what he thought, but I couldn’t find any. So I’ll ask my friends on Ricochet — do you think this is true? If so, is it inevitable? How can this be avoided?
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I keep meaning to read this:
Codevilla, Angelo M. (2009). The character of nations : how politics makes and breaks prosperity, family, and civility
The guy is smart as hell.
A decade or two of societal-wide extreme poverty might do the trick. Worked for the Great Depression.
Complex urban civilizations fall when the elites (and eventually the people) forget where the food comes from, and how amazing it is (in our time) that hundreds of millions of people can go open their fridge or their kitchen cabinet in the morning and find breakfast inside.
They fall when the elites forget about the hard-won triumphs of sanitation and public health. (San Francisco, I am talking about you.)
And especially, they fall when the elites hire other people to fight their wars for them.
This cycle seems inevitable.
Now we will have robots fight for us. And unlike other people Robots are our property and creation.
Mises.org is right about everything.