Comment by vdupras

The human world runs on a gargantuan web of promises. What makes the bus driver sit there and drive is the tip of the promises iceberg. Layers upon layers of promises, leveraging each other.

The future has already been promised many times over and anyone trying to resolve those promises can only come to the conclusion of broken promises on a massive scale. This means a shrinking pie. A shrinking pie means conflict. A big enough conflict means collapse.