The question is whether the powers that be can maintain the system. The answer is: they can.
Pardon me? We would still be living under the Roman Empire if they could.
The only question is when the collapse is going to happen. It might happen next year. It might happen in 10 years. If anyone here thinks it won't happen in our lifetime, I can understand that, even though I don't think so. But expecting it to last forever fits Einstein's definition of insanity - "doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdSq5H7awi8Funny how little anything has changed since then, isn't it?
As I said a few posts earlier, economic collapse will happen. This discussion was in the context of perpetual assertions that we are on
the brink of collapse. Ten years from now, or within our lifetime -- those periods are irrelevant to that discussion -- though I think it's unlikely we see anything of this magnitude over those periods, either.
Really, I am coming from a psychological standpoint. As stated earlier, I am well aware that massive economic collapse will occur. But to continue to believe that this was impending, for a period of years, in the face of continued normalcy -- that took a toll on me. Plan your shit (I have), but to believe the doomsday shit that gets spewed around here... fuck all that nonsense. So many armchair economists that are so ill-equipped to analyze the world economic system...
