This is very similar to what happened to Rome after their victory in the second Punic war. That victory left Rome uncontested control over the Mediterranean (very similar to globalization after the Cold War), providing elites with great wealth and a massive influx of slaves. They used this wealth to replace the citizen farmers around the great cities that that were the backbone of Roman power (specifically, the ability to overwhelm enemies with an seemingly endless supply of men loyal to the Republic) with slave-worked latifundia.
Plutarch; once these citizen farmers were ejected from their land, they “no longer showed themselves eager for military service, and neglected the bringing up of children, so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen, and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves, by whose aid the rich cultivated their estates, from which they had driven away the free citizens.”
@johnrobb So the gestalt mind is probably constrained by linear text convos. Like another dimension needs to be added to see fields/planes/topology of knowledge.
Neuralink mind map/gestalt downloads?
Neo: "I know kung fu."
@Handre I figured the yard took it out back, pulled out all the useful parts and sold them. The woman handed me the check and said "No, we just crush it."
@johnrobb Is this another use of moral warfare where Xi uses morality to consolidate power like he does back home to purge rivals? Like he isn't wrong here but their system will ultimately be worse for everyone.