Hollywood Hunter

For Americans who are in full swing around the millennium, the decline of the United States, whether it is the elite or the lower class, they will only subconsciously think that this is a false proposition.

It has been at its peak for a hundred years, won World War II, destroyed the Soviet Union, and after that, what else can there be?

Forever brilliant of course.

So much so that there is a certain "end of history" argument, that the American system is the ultimate form of human civilization. After 1991, the world will continue forever and ever under the leadership of the United States.

However, for Simon, a latecomer, he certainly understands that the so-called end of history is the real false proposition.

It is even said that the decline of the United States is much faster than many people imagined.

Still counting from 1991, in just thirty years, the huge empire, which was in full swing, showed a crumbling state of collapse. Some people may refute that the United States is still number one in the world even after twenty years. A lean camel is bigger than a horse, and a broken ship has three thousand nails. How can it decline so easily?

The question is, for example, for the tallest building in the world, when the problem accumulates to a certain extent, will it collapse in an instant, or because it is relatively tall, it can resist the gravity of the earth and collapse slowly for decades?

In reality, the Great Depression is the most direct example.

The United States reached the peak of the world in the last decade of the 19th century, the largest economy in the world, and, because of sufficient geographical advantages, it can be said that there are no strong enemies outside and no worries inside, and it can be called Utopia. However, in 1929 In 2010, seemingly all of a sudden, why was there a near-apocalyptic economic disaster?

It can be said that if it were not for the outbreak of the Second World War, which pushed all the needs of the entire world outside the battlefield to the United States, and at the same time there was a huge influx of funds and elites from all over the world who were escaping risks, this country would want to completely get out of the world. Affected by the Great Depression, returning to the peak is definitely not that easy.

Another example is the Soviet Union.

It is impossible for a huge empire to collapse in a short period of time. What about the Soviet Union, didn't it happen overnight?

So some people said, the Soviet Union is different from the United States, the system is different, how could it collapse? So, if the system cannot collapse, what about the economy?

Go back to 1929 again.

Not overnight!

why?

Just like the Ukrainian agriculture that Simon has learned about in the past few years, in just a few years, Ukraine's grain production can drop from more than 50 million tons before the disintegration of the Soviet Union to 10 million tons, a drop of nearly 80%.

The fundamental reason is that the entire operating system of modern society, whether it is agriculture or other fields, is a huge and tightly integrated machine. When a fatal failure occurs in one aspect of this machine, the impact will be quickly transmitted to the whole body, triggering a collapse-like domino effect, and finally the entire machine will quickly disintegrate in a burst of sparks and become nothing.

Still in 1929, the stock market in the United States collapsed, and the whole country collapsed, and the residents of small towns in the middle of the United States who had never touched stocks would start to starve.

In the 1990s, the Soviet Union collapsed, so in ordinary people's minds, Ukraine, which could theoretically produce a large amount of grain with land, plummeted by 80% at its lowest point, so that it once supplied the entire Soviet Union. It was used to earn foreign exchange from exports to support the financially strained granaries of Eastern Europe, so they had to seek international assistance to avoid famine.

In short, there is nothing that lasts forever, and nothing that is too big to fail. In many cases, it is just overnight.

Inside the dining room of Raybould's house.

Because the topic was brought up by Simon, Nora Registrar, who was a standard American in the heyday, of course couldn't take it as a grandstanding. What's more, Simon took 1929 as an example, making it impossible for her to refute.

After a moment of consideration, Nora asked, "So, Simon, what problems do you think the Federation is facing that could lead to...well, history repeats itself in 1929?"

"If you put aside our pride as the world's largest country and study carefully, you can find a hundred problems in a week, a hundred similar problems that existed in the federation before 1929, because history always Repeated," Simon said: "However, if I make a summary, I think the biggest problem facing the United States is that no one is willing to make sacrifices."

When Simon said that, it wasn't just Nora, but several other people at the table paused and looked over inquiringly.

Simon didn't wait to ask, and continued: "If a country wants to solve its internal problems, it needs all classes to reach a tacit agreement and sacrifice part of their own interests to complete it. The current problem of the Federation is that the rich are unwilling to pay more to solve the problem. The politicians are unwilling to lose their votes in order to solve the problem, and even ordinary people are unwilling to lose even a little bit of self-interest in order to solve the problem. For example, the most typical rust belt, the heavy industry center of the Federation, Ordinary blue-collar workers are not satisfied with the same high salary as university professors. It is not enough for one person to work and the whole family needs the company to provide medical insurance. The state of workers squeezing capital in reverse. As a result, the major auto giants had to relocate their factories to the south and then overseas. Along with the relocation, there was also a huge supporting industrial chain. In the end, everything they once enjoyed was gone. .”

After Simon's words fell, everyone fell into deep thought.

After a while, Nora looked at Simon again and asked a somewhat pointed question: "Simon, as the largest capitalist in the Federation, are you willing to make sacrifices?"

"Of course I would

"Simon said: "Actually, if you look back at history, you will find that many rich people like me are willing, and they have publicly called for tax increases for themselves more than once. This may seem hypocritical to some, but it is not. Because we understand that only by assuming more social responsibilities can this self-dependent country run better, and it is also beneficial to us. "

Nora remembered that she had done a lot of knowledge about the Westeros system 3G plan in private. It was indeed a series of projects considered for the future of mankind. Looking at the young tycoon opposite, she did not doubt the other party's words, so she asked again: " So, what's the problem?"

Simon smiled and said: "I just said that no one is willing to make sacrifices. Of course, the 'people' here cannot be said to be some individual individuals. To be precise, they should be various groups. Lack of sobriety, the problem is that the selfish nature deep in human genes is difficult to reverse when it is enlarged to the group level.”

Philip caught a point and interjected: "Simon, you mean 'difficult', not absolute, so there should still be a way, right?"

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