Quote from: oggsmash;1127328Amazon will come out of this fine.  The lasting economic wounds I dont see healing fast at all.  In another month Snake Plissken escape tours may become a real thing for NYC.  I feel politically the country has some seams showing.  I forsee problems, the sort nations do not come back from.  I think rpgs have a better shot of being fine as a thing than the USA.

Quote from: Arkansan;1127345The USA was destined for Balkinization. It's easy to hold together an empire composed of disparate regions with conflicting mores, social outlooks, and ethnic backgrounds during periods of growth and prosperity, it's another thing entirely when things are rocky. Our economy has been deteriorating for decades, wage stagnation, outsourcing, the proliferation of the service economy, fuckery in the financial markets etc. Combine those factors with an media/elite class that is increasingly out of touch with the man on the ground and frequently hostile to them and you have a recipe for acrimonious divorce.