[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

——But take a good, hard, look around and ask how many can or will do that?-——

There won’t be any non-violent alternatives.(I can foresee violence in the cities, if the collapse is rapid.)

I think we’ll be better off than in the ‘30s, simply because medicine has improved so much since then. Heroic, life-extending measures will most likely be unaffordable, but they didn’t exist at all during the depression.

Overall, I see a return of the family clan, largely for the good of society.

[redgolum]

Friend, the family no longer exists like it did like then. For one thing, in the 30’s most had family somewhere on a farm. Now? Few do.

As for medical, who will pay for it? Do you know how much the charge is for a baby? A check up? Anything? If we had to pay out of pocket, there would be little to no health care.

[jpl]

Overall, I see a return of the family clan, largely for the good of society.

That is exactly what I see happening as well. Mankind and the family structure will be reorganized back to the living the way that they lived for most of mankind's history, before everyone fell for this stupid Great Fiction that we can all live at everyone else's expense.