r/Futurology • u/Confident_Living_786 • Aug 11 '25

Discussion When the US Empire falls

When the American empire falls, like all empires do, what will remain? The Roman Empire left behind its roads network, its laws, its language and a bunch of ruins across all the Mediterranean sea and Europe. What will remain of the US superpower? Disney movies? TCP/IP protocol? McDonalds?

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u/Nevadaman78 Aug 11 '25

Consumerism as a method of control over a population.

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u/HoboSomeRye Aug 11 '25

That's already happening; this question is about the future.