Subj : Re: what if biden dies To : All From : anthk Date : Tue Dec 05 2023 04:59 am On 2023-11-27, Arelor wrote: > > Re: Re: what if biden dies > By: hollowone to Arelor on Sun Nov 26 2023 07:46 am > >> I believe West is more transforming than dying, but time will show. > > Once you are at your highest, any road you take will lead you down. > > Western Europe at least has transitioned to become service economies. Nobody > wants to dig ore in a mine when you can sell coffee in a pub. > > The issue is if you have a stash of money you use to buy industrialized > products and prime matter from elsewhere, and your economy is based on local > services, you are screwed, because you will end up running out of money your > providers want to accept eventually. > > It doesn't help that a lot of the services we run are artificial or are > services created in response to limitations we have created. A lot of > accounting offices exist only because it is nigh impossible to navigate ever > changing tax regulations. > > I am not optimistic because we have historical precendents of what happens whena culture becomes so rich it can make other cultures work for them in exchange > of money while the rich culture sits on their lazy asses. It usually ends > badly. > > -- > gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken > > --- > þ Synchronet þ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL In Spain for instance there was a big industry of coal, but burning it has no future. In the Southern coast everyone and his cat wants a job related to bars/tourism. We'll see how 'well' does that work with the climate change. And no, the North of Spain is not a tourist haven because, well, the Brits and Germans don't want to get the literal same climate they got in their countries. I wish my country was more like Torres Quevedo/Ram¢n y Cajal and less than a real-life RPG of a Monopoly board where the main industries are Tourism and Construction related. Because in a few years, the Mediterranean coast in Spain will have hurricanes similar to the Florida ones in the US. --- þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net .