I’m reading about Lebanon and what it has been through, especially in the last several years. Inflation is out of control, where salaries are meaningless and grocers don’t even bother pricing their items because they can’t keep up with the changing rate. Basic human services like trash collection and electricity are not available. Citizens resort to holding banks up at gunpoint to get their own money out.
What happens when a country collapses? What does that really mean? What happens to all its people?
Edit to add another question: Is it actually possible for a country to be so mismanaged that its people literally all die out or leave?
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It is possible. When the government and its institutions cannot enforce their authority and carry out their duties, the country is effectively collapsed since the government has failed.
Unfortunately when this happens it’s usually a handful of oligarchs keeping the country hostage and getting rich out of their desperation. Impoverished people can’t just simply get up and leave, so they’re stuck in this endless cycle of exploitation which cannot easily end since the government is corrupt and they don’t have qualms about quashing protests and revolt with brute force.
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