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A comment on Ask HN: Often do you seriously think about preparing for a doomsday scenario. Parent comment

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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