@NuModular@techhub.social @Emil It's still a markedly polaric differential, between a modern, first-world country like the US, and these 'third' world countries affecting more sustainable upgrades. And with corollary reductions in demographics amongst more authoritarian/communist countries, along with destabilizing war and economic scales, the swing becomes even more of a steep decline, instead of a sustainable oscillation to-and-fro.