Now see, that there is what they call a stereo type. Just how many “preppers” do you know? Did you per chance “hear” about them from TV?
There ain't no such thing as a prepper - that's just some fancy word made up that some people like to use to sneer at people.
I won't speak for others, but me I'm just a farm gal at heart. Practicing things I learned from Granny and Grandpa, passing it on to my kids and grandkids. It just so happens that we have tornadoes all the time, and storms that regularly interrupt electrical service.
We have even had snow so deep and often that school was called off for 2 months, because the buses couldn't run. Now we either have to be able to deal with that or curl up in a fetal position, suck our thumbs, and succumb, or we can deal with it in the same spirit as our ancestors.
Brave people who faced danger to come to the new world, and moved west and dealt with the hand they drew. That ain't prepping, that's living.
Now that we are all so much more scientific, someone may believe that there's an asteroid in their future. Those people worried about financial collapse-it has happened to many countries. Think the USA is immune?
Did you know that the US Government went broke(had a cash flow problem whatever you want to call it)? Yep they did. JP Morgan bailed out the USA government(after he bought out Carnegie's Company).
That's why U.S. Steel didn't get the same trust-busting treatment that Standard Oil got. Of course there was that little problem FDR had too.
He confiscated the gold gave every one some US Dollars in exchange. Then immediately devalued the dollar by about 40%-can you say screwed the USA citizens?
Now, all my life I have said don't bet against the US economy, companies, and workers. I still say that-bet on the USA. On the other hand, it just wouldn't be intelligent not to hedge that bet.
Can't blame people for wanting to figure out ahead of time what's coming and how to deal with life's little curve balls. At least you have covered some of your bases.
Well, that's how I see it. It's still a pretty free country out here in the rural areas of flyover country. And we still have a lot of people who like to be self sufficient and independent. Don't want to deal with certain problems cause you think it won't or can't happen?.
Well study a little bit about normalcy bias, and make sure you really want to take the chance that nothing like some of those problems will ever happen.
If you are 100% convinced it is not a problem, then don't, but somewhere down the line, you may hear the words “I told you so, grasshopper”.