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The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 (by Lionel Shriver)
Published 2 weeks ago
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We just unpacked The Mandibles—and it feels less like fiction every year.
🇺🇸 Dollar collapses
💳 US renounces its debt
🌍 New global currency
🥫 Food shortages, gold outlawed
👨👩👧👦 A family forced to confront what wealth actually is
As money dies, so do identities.
As comfort disappears, morality shifts.
Survival replaces ideology.
The real question isn’t will this happen— it’s who adapts when the system breaks.📉
Empires don’t fall all at once.
They decay… then default.
Have you read it—or are we living it?