>>11820765I mean...you are not wrong.
But thing is, it isn't going to be "just" budget cuts.
In a realistic sense, dark ages are literally death of knowledge because
1. No military to defend trade routes
2. No way to pay teachers
3. No government stockpile to provide in times of famine
4. No currency with stable monetary value, even
Just giving a bigger perspective.
Humanity have been through many different darkages and all of them were brutal.
Bronze Age collapse was the hardest for me because civilization used to have a universal written language - Linear B. It was forgotten until the Greeks introduced Alphabet
