When you let the last parts of your empire fall away to a band of peasants led by a wrinkled old fart, let your home nation be run by chavs and unpaid prostitutes and allow unchecked immigration from the most barbaric parts of the planet...it’s rather inevitable that your technical ability will eventually start to fail you.
The loss of people that actually know how to do things is not a good thing for any society. All I see now days is people walking around staring at their phones.
Don’t forget a cradle to grave welfare system for anyone too lazy to work.
>>it’s rather inevitable that your technical ability will eventually start to fail you.
It’s not that. There’s a video out on this class of warships and they are really a technological wonder. I’ve worked in industrial automation for my whole life, starting in the US Navy and then through a career in manufacturing and utilities. When the documentary got down to the engineering spaces and they were showing the high-tech used down there, I got cold chills. That sort of stuff is great in a fixed location where you can drive home at the end of the day, but I prefer the ship’s engineering plant to be tried-and-true mature technology.