It's not about which is the best technology.
The barrier to entry for Node.js is next to nothing and the size of the ecosystem is incomparable to Elixir. Which means tons of companies will go with Node and feed back to the ecosystem and so on...
It's more of the Portuguese Empire collapsed otherwise they'd still be around till today.
FYI, the Arabs in question here were the Omani Sultanate who operated a gigantic slave trade on the East African coast.
In my country geothermal power plants are run by a state corporation. It's definitely not as easy to scale but in an ideal world I would have it over fossil fuels.
Age 0-18: You are under the care of society.
Age 18-60: You are a productive member of society.
Age 60+: You are under the care of society again.
This is always how humans have lived.