Joseph Tainter’s ‘The Collapse of Complex Societies’ addresses this thesis in detail.

Overall diminishing returns from an ever-growing bloated military industrial complex will inevitably collapse under its own weight.

How a collapse will unfold with over 8 billion people linked via a globally centralized digital economy should be of great concern to all; a ‘Great Taking’ of epic proportions.

Let us hope Bitcoin adoption decentralizes stores of value before the ship goes down.