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...These are not survival skills, but they’re “keep the world spinning” skills and “make people feel they’re not living in the end times” skills. They will stand you in good stead.
Which leads to something I have pondered, with the help of FerFal, since accepting the idea that an economic collapse is a certainty. For every person who has some place to "bug out", there are 100,000 of us who do not. And life will go on. Period. Prepping is more akin to what the author states- staying ahead of any temporary shortages be it electricity, groceries, gas, even income but especially sanity.
Having a years worth of food and ammo will be great but is it really necessary (don't answer that)? Life goes on. Having two weeks to a month of any essential and nicity at any given time will be the premium goal. Getting creative and maintaining a positive attitude will navigate any common sense person through the mess.
I am no predicter of how things will play out, but let me take a stab at it and say that it will be a long slide, like she stated, with intermittent drops (barring nuclear strikes of course).