Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for a doomsday scenario

Re:Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for ... by memexy on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:52PM (#23473409)

Never. I assume we either all make it by helping each other or we don't. So there is no reason to prep. My prepping is looking for ways to create as much progress as possible and doing anything else feels regressive to me.

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Re:Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for ... by deathgrips on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:17PM (#23473553)

How will you help other people if the economy breaks down?

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Re:Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for ... by memexy on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @11:54PM (#23473751)

When has the economy ever "broken down"?

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Re:Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for ... by sethammons on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @08:52AM (#23476479)

Great Depression? Every war torn area ever? Shifting markets causing ghost towns? Every large emigration such as the Irish Potato Famine? And then you have “so dysfunctional that it may a well be broken” economies. See life in slums or very poor regions.

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Re:Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for ... by deathgrips on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:13AM (#23477944)

Please go outside and talk to all the homeless people. It doesn't matter to the rest of us how high the GDP is if it's not evenly distributed.

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