“Empires age and decay in the course of three generations,” Ibn Khaldun warned. And while his theory referred to early-modern desert dynasties, it could easily apply to WFM.
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And in a globalized world - it is just a matter of years as people can not pay through the noise forever on products they can get from the farmers' market at half the price.
Well, it took Romans 1000+ years to fall apart. In Egypt it was more like 3,000 years. The Ottomans lasted for about 400 years. In the grand schema of things we are just starting...