{"id":92609,"date":"2026-03-30T11:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92609"},"modified":"2026-03-30T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:15:33","slug":"american-salvage-root-causes-of-the-long-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92609","title":{"rendered":"American salvage: root causes of the long collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2026\/03\/american-salvage-root-causes-of-long.html\">https:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2026\/03\/american-salvage-root-causes-of-long.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Automation \/ Globalization \/ AI? -> no middle-class bourgeois lifestyle for non-elite<br \/>\nRural collapse (esp US)<br \/>\nCorruption (governmental, corporate, non-profit)<br \/>\nWealth and power concentration and the oligarchy (Citizens United)<br \/>\nCollapse of journalism business model<br \/>\nRegulatory ratchet (career-ending to remove, path dependency)<br \/>\nAmerican societal response to the rise of women<br \/>\nCapture of the GOP by the MAGA powered by LIV exploitation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/notes.kateva.org\/2026\/03\/american-salvage-root-causes-of-long.html Automation \/ Globalization \/ AI? -> no middle-class bourgeois lifestyle for non-elite Rural collapse (esp US) Corruption (governmental, corporate, non-profit) Wealth and power concentration and the oligarchy (Citizens United) Collapse of journalism business model Regulatory ratchet (career-ending to remove, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/?p=92609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[28,40],"class_list":["post-92609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share","tag-ifttt","tag-pinboard-jgordon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92610,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92609\/revisions\/92610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kateva.org\/sh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}