Thread: This Is Not a Test. This Is Not a Test.
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Old 03-18-2009, 11:45 PM
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It's difficult to say. It could very well be that simply letting all these institutions fail and let new ones spring up would put the world in a decade of funk.

For example: the NYC water system is in bad shape from what I read. Of course they've been doing upgrades recently. But suppose 10 years ago they just decided to shut it all down and start from scratch. All of NYC w/o water for a year? Naw, that wouldn't be a problem.

We've become interwoven into this complexity. Backing out of it won't be easy.
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