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The total US debt is ~200 Trillion, or about 700k USD per person.

The US economy is based on paper promises for flows of money that may or
may not exist. Without foreign investors buying US federal and state
bonds ... most governmental functions would collapse, and that is just
one example.

The only good a total collapse of the US economy will do will be to make
the economy become based on the production of actual goods...

Well then, that's not a very good prognosis, is it?

"Production of actual goods", you say?

We don't produce no stinkin' goods anymore.

(Can you say "China"? Sure you can).