“I’m betting on the latter because we’ve literally become Too Big to Fail at this point. The rest of the world cannot survive our collapse, so they have no alternative than to let us go on printing money and pretend that it has value.”
The rest of the world will get along without us.
A few tourists might show up and our kids will do the Third World begging routine. They won’t miss any school, the schools will simply be housing for unpaid government workers.