Utterly incorrect actually. Most civilizations such as Pitcairn Island were in a vacuum. They died due to have no outside sources and they whittled down their resources until they wiped themselves out.
Most of the civilizations from my research were destroyed due to natural disaster and they weirdly cut down all their trees.
Centralization may be beneficial in our destruction or it may hasten it. Impossible to tell.
I think when more than if USA goes under the market has to die to be reborn. It’s currently just running in such an ethereal sense. It’s not functioning correctly and is basically the symbol of unfetted capitalism.
Tesla is the poster child for betting on speculation. It was set up as a tech company but is a car company and it will likely peter out once the fan boys have bought up all the cars. It can’t have infinite growth. No company can yet stock market requires infinite growth.
Weird how it how works. When it blows up it will be spectacular. It’s our version of civilization collapse