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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by umvi on Friday August 02, 2019 @05:16PM (#20596716)
> Complex systems become more complex over time and resist becoming simpler. One day they instantly become simple again (collapse).

I bet this is true of governments as well, since governments are systems.

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by balnaphone on Saturday August 03, 2019 @12:40AM (#20598708)
See also Joseph Tainter's "The Collapse of Complex Societies" (1988).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter

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Re:“I would like to maintain the floppy driver” by dev_dull on Friday August 02, 2019 @06:23PM (#20597134)
The idea is actually from Jared Diamond’s “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed”.
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