> after decades of people being right about it being unsustainable.

...and _kind of_ proves the point: our current Boomer-infused parasiting welfare states are _less obviously bad and unsustainable_ than the Soviet experiment, yet _it_ still lingered on for decades. We. Are. So. Fucked.

denlillaapan

I like the analogy because the status quo persists longer than you think it should and you can clearly see why it should be changing, but also when it fails it will be rapid and dramatic.

This is a good time for a reminder that the Soviet Union collapsed suddenly and unexpectedly after decades of people being right about it being unsustainable.

Politics_And_Law

econ

Britain’s Debt Cage (FT, Smith-Fleming-Parker)

I like the analogy because the status quo persists longer than you think it should and you can clearly see why it should be changing, but also when it fails it will be rapid and dramatic. 

This is a good time for a reminder that the Soviet Union collapsed suddenly and unexpectedly after decades of people being right about it being unsustainable.