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The End of Nation-States - by Tomas Pueyo - Uncharted Territories

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It’s 2050. The US government just defaulted on its debt. It’s not meeting its social security payments. Hospitals are going down: they can’t operate without Medicare and Medicaid income. Old people line up outside the hospitals. Hospitals don’t service them. They can’t afford it. There's a run on the banks that held too many dollars. They are collapsing. All the governments around the world caught with too much US debt are defaulting. Those with their savings in dollars have been wiped out. They are looking at the last few decades of their lives like an empty ravine.

In previous articles, we studied how information technologies determine political structures: speech, writing, the printing press, and broadcasting media created chiefdoms, kingdoms, empires, churches, nation-states, and totalitarianisms. Today, we’re going to see how specifically our current nation-states will fall. It’s 2050. The US government just defaulted on its debt. It’s not meeting its social security payments. Hospitals are going down: they can’t operate without Medicare and Medicaid income. Old people line up outside the hospitals. Hospitals don’t service them. They can’t…

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