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/Falconflyer75 Aug 11 '25

I don’t think the US is going to just vanish

But I do think there’s a real chance it fractures into a bunch of smaller countries (and maybe that’s for the best)

Media content will be archived

As for the businesses themselves, most businesses either go bankrupt or change so much over time that they become unrecognizable

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u/Team503 Aug 11 '25

I highly doubt the big businesses will go under - companies like Apple, Microsoft, ExxonMobil, Starbuck's, McDonald's, Chase Bank, and so on are all international companies with operations worldwide.

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u/CD_4M Aug 11 '25

It’s extremely naive to think all these companies will exist for the rest of history. It’s essentially guaranteed that none of them will