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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah. Every securely built society gets rotten as time goes on, because no one feels anymore the urgency to maintain it. People used to have a fire of how important it was to make things okay, build and maintain all that structure, and that's what built the mid-20th-century good place that was America (for some people, not that it was "finished" in any sense, but it was pretty freakin' good all things considered and comparatively.)

But yeah then everyone got lazy and let things fall apart. And now, look what happened. Weak people make hard times.