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... sometimes to the detriment of needed innovation or adaptation.
Declining Returns on Investment: According to theories like those of Joseph Tainter, as societies become more complex, the benefits derived from increasing complexity may diminish, leading to a state where the costs of maintaining ...

... unless they’re capable of feeding themselves and taking care of themselves. I’m not prepared to do that. And I think most people are not.

Tainter: We passed that point a long time ago. A collapse today would mean that billions of people would die in a short period of time.

McKenzie: That ...

Joseph Tainter on The Dynamics of the Collapse of Human Civilization

https://youtu.be/JsT9V3WQiNA?t=1397

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do i think that the transition will be graceful or is there a potential for a dark age
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i'm not sure that i know and i think there is potential for a dark age
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one of the ...

... ever peaked and declined.

And one of the best works on the subject I’ve ever read is The Collapse of Complex Societies, by anthropologist Joseph Tainter.

“Collapse” is a strong word and conjures images of anarchy and death. But Tainter’s definition is more precise; “collapse” doesn’t mean that a ...

The views of two archaeologists (number 1 on the list), Demarest, professor at Vanderbilt University, and Tainter, professor at Utah State University.


This is a list of the types of specialists who might think about collapse.

1. Archaeologists - Done enough digging to realize that much of what ...

... an assumption has developed that it always ends that way. Many assume China is next in line. Those who believe that may want to reconsider. Joseph Tainter, an archaeologist who has studied the collapse of complex civilizations, considers another possibility:

Peer polities [i.e., groups of mutually ...

... are dreaming. You can't remake the world the way you want to just because you said so.

In my most recent post, I mentioned that Professor Joseph Tainter, author of the book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, says that when energy supplies are inadequate, the resulting economic system will need to ...

https://risk.princeton.edu/img/Historical_Collapse_Resources/Tainter_The_Collapse_of_Complex_Societies_ch_1_2_5_6.pdf

The log three funtion is ridiculed and as known before after three days you're a non-issue with no water.
Wheat is another function after three weeks no calories. As seen the weather ...

... are increasing.
New York a hellscape of Business climate run from ruin from grifters renamed and wrapped in you did not build that rhetoric.

Tainter was correct on more than few points and currency implosion from Alinksy tactical attack from the Gramsci roadmap.
They knew the less than <97 ...

... are dreaming. You can't remake the world the way you want to just because you said so.

In my most recent post, I mentioned that Professor Joseph Tainter, author of the book, The Collapse of Complex Societies, says that when energy supplies are inadequate, the resulting economic system will need to ...