This reminds me of Greer's catabolic collapse:
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2006-05-31/catabolic-collapse/
As society gets more complex the cost of maintenance gets higher and higher. With material abundance you can pay higher baseline costs and grow at the same time, but there will be a time when that's no longer possible. Collapse / simplification follows.
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