The HN community is going to have to adapt to having difficulties getting the people it wants into the US to work. Or, it has to figure out how to operate with the flexibility of US-based companies elsewhere. But the changes underway are going to have a detrimental effect on the community that we've discussed this century.
more like an older order is re aserting itself as the whole planet levels up it's technology and applys it's growing industrial might to the pragmatic solution to civilisations needs.
Many old cultures in the world maintain ancient knowledge concerning the order of events that happen durring times of disruption and how to best respond to external challenges, the givens bieng unchanged and as unchangeable as human motivation's are.