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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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I lived through it with Katrina. While it didn't affect the entire country, only a small portion of it, and it didn't happen for a long period of time... You did have a 1st world country turn into mad max over a span of 2-3 days. Just a small example of what could happen on a larger scale.
Things that could cause "mad max" type conditions would not be financially related but more likely from weather, disease (biological), nuclear (war) etc... In the past 2,000 years all of the above have caused 1st world countries to experience long periods of time where there was chaos and every man for himself.
The problem with this thread (besides the typical GFY of everyone thinking they know everything about everything) is that you have several different people talking about different things.