tale as old as time 1: struggle against the odds 2: develop brilliant patrician virtues 3: become a success 4: become complacent in your success 5: abandon your trad values because "ew, boring" 6: when trouble arises, either from the outside or your own corruption, decadent waste and sloth, you don't know how to deal with it 7: more energetic, if inferior, peoples begin to sap your wealth and resources 8: system collapses, and no, all the people who cucked out to won't view you as a kind person for doing so, just an idiot, people can make up some excuse to hate you no matter how well you have treated them
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