Just a quibble - there's a lot of momentum in the whole system and it's going to take a lot more than seven years to work out.

In seven years, some places will be a lot worse off, but many will be about the same: it will crumble more and more as time goes on.

These are just details, the overall picture you paint is very accurate and very very sad.

I was reading an article by a well-known professor a few minutes ago, and he was going on about how rosy the future was for America, without even mentioning the polycrisis.

I simply cannot fathom how smart people can have their heads so firmly up their own asses.