You need to travel rather than just hearing about boogeyman stories online. Most of the world is relatively poor. Who do you think is about to catch up? Indonesia? India? Have you seen these places? Their economy is big largely due to their population size.
Lol you don't know anything about me or what I have seen of the world.
You’re defining collapse in a very unique way here
If you stagnate economically then you are shrinking. Inflation eats up the purchasing power and you get poorer. In a lot of European countries the purchasing power of the population has been decimated over the last 20 years. Only a few countries in the east are the exception.
A lot of the "growth" is debt and money going in circles. We'll see how much of it actually stays around next year. So far the US already has to bail out the datacentre expansion by funding transmission lines upgrades instead of asking for money for it from the companies.
Please cite comments like this. It's not helpful to the conversation to make highly opinionated statements.
Cite -> provide citations for
Yeah, I have always used those interchangeably, do you feel like they're different?
Seller financing is not a financial circle. It's how you buy a car, sometimes a house.
What single source would satisfy you that the current US economy is a Ponzi scheme? I don't think it's really provable or falsifiable until long after the fact. We could start by pointing to the bond market or the price of gas?
Once you go that far, you'll just decide all currency is a Ponzi scheme.