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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
Have any of you thought about this for more than 5 seconds?
You aren't going to wake up one day and look out your window to see a barren post apocalyptic hell-scape with roving gangs of Mad Max style criminals.
If America collapses, it will be a long, slow decline over years and decades. It won't suddenly go to hell with people trading seeds as currency. Britain, France, Spain, those were all super powers at one time and they simply faded into being regular countries. They aren't wastelands filled with gun toting criminals, in fact, many people argue that those countries are better than America.
I guess all I would ask is for people to show me an example of a first world country that declined into this Mad Max style scenario everyone seems to think is coming.
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During the great depression the fastest mode of communication was a telegram. Look at what happened in 2008. Over the weekend how many banks failed? How fast did the stock market crash and real estate price drop? And look at what just happened in the middle east. Thing's move much faster now. America is in a decline and it's a lot faster than most care to recongnize.
But yeah short of a planet wide natural disaster the Mad Max scenario is just plain silly. But I think things could go to shit overnight. Gas prices could double, the stock market could crash totally in a 24 hour period. We live in a age where all information is instant and that means we make decisions instantly. Mass selling off of stocks and bonds would totally ruin the worlds economy.