My parents and grandparents lived through the Great Depression and I grew up hearing all the stories, in addition to reading about the Great Depression. I don’t know if an economic collapse will happen or not, but if it does, then your bleak predictions are possible, and we’ll be less able to deal with it than in the past. Our country and the people are not as tough, independent and moral as they were in 1929. A much greater percentage of people either lived on a farm or knew someone that did — those could grow their own food or get it from people that did. People weren’t as mobile as we are and didn’t depend on energy to the extent we do. More people went to church back then and had a moral foundation in their lives — people were more civil then. There are now a number of racial subclasses that think society “owes” them and they have little to lose taking it. Remember the anarchy in New Orleans, the roving thugs? Most people today don’t have the financial resources to buy a remote property and built a castle to fend off their hungry neighbors and the opportunistic hoards that will flee the cities. Civilization is a thin veneer indeed.
Well and accurately put.
Thx.