Yeah preservation is not in the vocabulary of some humans. To bad we elected the promotors of this system, we wrote the laws, and enforced them with military & police.
We the taxing citizens did it all, we could take power back in a second, just ignore cash and move on :)
Weak analyzes by BIS they sure would have said that the 56k modem was the peak of tech and would not scale either, or perhaps the CD for storage :)
Cryptos will scale just fine with bandwith and memory scaling..