I can’t put my hands on the statistic quickly, but the percentage of adults in the US with a negative net worth is unbelievably high.
All you need is a few bucks in your pocket and no debt to be ahead of them.
My advice for the average Joe, is to get as far away from the urban areas of the major cities as you can and prepare to survive in a rural setting. It ain’t going to be pretty living in an urban setting when the SHTF and anarchy rules. No gun free zones will be honoured, only the strongest will survive, the rest will die off. Starvation, disease, and fear will force most of the survivors to flee from the urban areas.
And flee they will into the surrounding areas and country side where you live looking to loot and kill and anything else they deem justifiable to their survival. Many of us living in these areas will be armed and waiting. In many cases, we will be outnumbered by bands of these people. It ain’t going to be pretty and no quarter will be given by either side. We will have to defend our lives and families while trying to keep the invaders from overrunning our “fortress”.
In the complete breakdown to follow, there will be no 911, Internet, electricity, or commerce as we have known it. Prepare to be isolated and live without them. Prepare to live off the land. Prepare to survive on a day-to-day basis. Prepare for a tough existence and a hard life.
At some point the Anti-Christ and his spirits will announce to world his sovereignty. People can then come out of the wilderness assured of world peace and the bountiful (food, medicine, or whatever need) fruits of the world will supplied freely to all who worship him.
The Anti-Christ will give them a “wallet” full of digital ( bitcoins?) money (no central banks needed) contained in an embedded computer/chip in their right hand or forehead that they can use to buy and sell goods within his kingdom. All personal wealth and transactions conducted between individuals and companies (no middleman banks and bankers needed) will be transferred directly between wallets. As long as they live and breathe, the compute/chip will contain all known bits of information about them since they were born - everything from cradle to grave. The Anti-Christ will supply their every need as he sees fit (no lawyers needed either) and in return they will worship him as their god.
If they refuse, then .... you know the rest. They will have to choose between the true G_D and the Anti-Christ. I hope we choose wisely.
These are my beliefs and opinions only. Your mileage may vary.