Comment by pm90

This is what happened in the West. It doesn't always need to be the same cycle of total destruction followed by reconstruction. While we should look to history for guidance, we cannot assume the same things will happen, or even that the same pattern will repeat itself. Short of an accidental nuclear holocaust, it seems rather unlikely that the current economic system will be undone anytime soon.

As a counterpoint to the demise of the Roman Empire, the Chinese Empire not only survived for thousands of years, it assimilated all the different people's living in the Chinese Mainland into one race (the Han). I feel like something similar is likely to happen in the future of the world.