The Mandibles is an excellent book, but one part it got dead wrong is predicting the US would be less competent than the rest of the world, drifting into obsolescence by clinging to the dollar while everybody else moves on to the bancor system.
What we are seeing in reality is the opposite. America is dirty, but it’s the cleanest dirty shirt in the laundry. 
America is going back to its roots, restoring freedom of speech, adopting sound money via Bitcoin, and shaking off the shackles of wokeism.
I found the utopian society at the end very boring. Same problem with Galts Gulch in atlas shrugged. You can critique the fiat system without pretending that had money makes everything magically perfect
Interesting. I liked the ending because the society wasn't utopian at all. The brother who lived there was pretty much living is squalor, and it general it seemed like a pretty rough life, albeit with more freedom.
Because in our timeline bitcoin won. I remember how 2016 brought about distopia to the world.
Even in the alternate universe where Bitcoin doesn’t win, I have a hard time believing the EU would be more competent than the US in the fallout.
