“They’ll suddenly say you are right, and come and visit you en masse when the grocery store shelves are empty. Lock and load.”
Yea - that will be tough. I do make it a point that none of my neighbors have any clue. Overall, if people are going house to house looking for food - we lose. More likely though, will be the Soviet model - where people are fed ‘enough’ (at least in Moscow) to live - but have to wait hours in line for that food. Likewise for other stuff. I see the future more in terms of trying to have a comfortable life - while others live third world, rather than a starving society (I reserve that outcome for something like an EMP attack...certainly possible, but not the same as a dollar crash).
Do you have any faraday cages? Do You plan to have some?
My guess is that people with money/land will hire out sharecroppers to convert their lawns into gardens. We can feed a lot of people on 30% of our national lawn acreage.
Of course, the government was talking about razing 30,000 houses in Detroit. This is exactly where the idea won’t work. Too expensive to hire armed guards over the hen house.
Sounds logical, at the present rate we're moving. I was thinking of the transition period as I have memories of how people acted before the hurricanes in Florida - a recurrent pattern.