[costsNall]

This is exactly where a lot of “cost” comes from.

Coddling legacy builders sense of value.

Paraphrasing James Madison, he wrote the future owed a debt to the past for their achievements.

I disagree, and align more with Thomas Jefferson; the dead do not rule the living.

Having to shoulder the burden of war and industrial debt on a “generational distributed ledger”, which is so clearly biased to favor entrenched power is unsustainable.

Indeed, that’s is, IMO, why most empires fail, and revolutions take place.