> At a large enough scale, the bust-out goes on forever.
I don't think that's true. It didn't work for Louis XVI, it won't work for us. If you continually degrade the reasons to bother playing this game, eventually somebody will start playing a different one.
A lot of People already can't afford food in the US. You think the Potato Famine was caused by not enough food and not governmental / economic ineptitude? That is like arguing bullets kill people not guns.
The potato famine (which had nothing to do with Louis XVI) wasn't even caused by ineptitude.
It was caused by outright cruelty.
Ireland had plenty of food at the time. It was just going to feed the English overlords. Potatoes were all that the Irish were allowed to keep, so when the blight hit, they starved.
I don't think that's true. It didn't work for Louis XVI, it won't work for us. If you continually degrade the reasons to bother playing this game, eventually somebody will start playing a different one.