1971 Is Not a Date — It’s a Fault Line

Some charts don’t need commentary.

They don’t argue.

They don’t persuade.

They simply reveal.

This one does exactly that.

Up until 1971, debt behaves like something human.

It rises during crises, falls during recovery, breathes with history.

There is tension, release, correction — a rhythm.

Then something changes.

After 1971, the movement loses its memory.

Debt no longer returns.

It accumulates.

Not because of war, not because of disaster, but because the system itself has shifted.

This is not about politics.

It’s not about left or right, good intentions or bad decisions.

It’s about a structural break — a moment where limits quietly disappeared.

From that point on, debt stops being a temporary tool and becomes a permanent condition.

Growth is no longer earned; it is borrowed from the future.

Stability is no longer grounded; it is managed.

Time keeps moving forward, but the anchor is gone.

What makes this chart uncomfortable is not the numbers.

It’s the smoothness.

The normalization.

The way an exception slowly turns into a baseline.

You don’t need to be an economist to see it.

You don’t need a model to understand it.

You only need to look — and notice that after 1971, the story changes direction.

Not abruptly.

Not dramatically.

But irreversibly.

And once you see that, you start to understand why so many things today feel disconnected from reality — yet perfectly logical within the system that replaced it.

Some graphs don’t predict the future.

They explain the present.

This is one of them.

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