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>mfw the existential horror setting has a government that justifies its high tax rates with public expenditure in the service of the people, but public services are incompetently financed, disproportionately benefit the political class and/or only serve as a means to buy votes for the next election
>this leads to an ever increasing national debt that nobody wants to pay back, so every generation kicks the can down the road until eventually and inevitably the whole system collapses under its own weight, leading to mass poverty among the government-dependent like the elderly, the disabled and the chronically lazy