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AlderaanDuran  ·  4256 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If North Korea Attacks...

    Am I the only one here that thinks if you borrow money you should pay it back?

I'm with ya, but it seems more and more people are screaming for student loan forgiveness. Not Blob_castle by any means, but elsewhere it seems to be a "thing" now days.

    Also, if the banking and credit system immediately collapsed, you had better have some really amazing essential capital on hand like fresh water or livestock or a rare and useful trade or guess what? You're fucked.

Exactly. You won't be "happy your loans are gone and can enjoy life", you'll be fucked, in danger, and wondering where your next meal is coming from. The misanthropic idealism behind thinking a post-society collapse world would be "fun" is silly to me. It wouldn't be fun at all. But when I was younger I used to look at it the same way BC seems to, so I don't blame anyone. Now I look at it as "Uhhh, that would be scary". But I'm prepared enough, I'm not a "prepper" by any means, but I have a "bug-out-bag" with supplies, a little ammo, and a .22 rifle for shooting small game should I need to leave the city in a hurry ever. Not just for civil unrest, but I'm downwind from the Yellowstone Caldera, and who knows, anything could happen in the future. I don't look forward to it, but preparing for and reading about it can be somewhat interesting and possibly useful in the future. :)

What BC misses, I think, is that it will be violent and people will take his stuff from him if they so choose. Many people are good, but most are going to be looking out for number 1. It won't be a quiet peaceful walk out of the city to his cave. It will be violence, chaos, looting, and mass pandemonium on a scale most of us have never seen. The country won't turn into some anarchist or libertarian paradise, no, more like pure chaos.