well said @citizenzero. you describe the disintegration of empire, its debt-based currency leading the way, and people inevitably helping themselves in smaller communities, as they have done historically in such situations. [there is always an economy however dire the circumstances. most folks will try and survive and they will do better at this by co-operating with others. a few though will lay down and die or at least vanish into an opiate-oblivion.] crypto offers the possibility of networks of networks of local economies which could have considerable resiliance and potential to produce peaceful prosperity. of course, the global information infrastructure would have to persist for something like that to happen, but if that goes down, everything goes down and we'll be hunting rats for dinner and living in a mad max movie. a good outcome of this imperial collapse cannot happen without struggle on many fronts. a key front is that of information, which includes money. hence the struggle for the internet, and the panicy grumbling from the establishment about crypto. hence the willful destabilisation of the conceptual underpinnings of useful and meaningful discourse through technologically intensified propoganda by those whose power and wealth is most challenged. hence the increase in sabre-rattling - war is often the last gamble of a dying empire ...