[usualtuesday]

Yes, the article is right.

And every time an article like this is published, HN predictably goes into the same tirade.

What are you actually going to do about it? Nothing. So keep complaining and hoping things change without changing.

[AlecSchueler]

Maybe if you had some suggestions or wanted to lead by example?

[Forgeties79]

You’re literally doing what you’re railing against. In fact it’s worse, because it’s not even about the thing itself, but about the commentary on the thing.

[toasty228]

> What are you actually going to do about it?

Discussing it is against this website's TOS and the law in most countries

[ifwinterco]

It's more evidence if any was needed that the US is now definitively in a late imperial phase of decline - US elites have become corrupt. This is classic decline of empire stuff.

So no you can't stop it, but knowing that does at least let you make decisions with more clarity in your own life

[bcjdjsndon]

I'm just glad I'm alive to witness it. Ww2 is what finally sank Britain's declining empireafter ww1, I'm hoping Iran and maybe a global war finally knocks them off that top spot and the east takes over

[ifwinterco]

The lesson from the British empire is it's a slow process, death by a thousand cuts.

"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation" and all that.

We'll be watching it for the rest of our lives, mostly in slow motion with occasional rapid periods of decline like the one at the moment

[linhns]

Be careful what you wish for.