So it has been proposed on a couple of topics that a total global economic collapse is coming. I would like to discuss this with you all. Not about what is causing it or how to stop it or even if it is happening. No I would like to discuss what your country would be like and what would happen in the world if this happened. In my opinion every country is going to have advantages and disadvantages in this scenario. Of course almost everyone will suffer, there will be wars, famines, and Chaos. But that is all generic horrible stuff. What about specifics? For example, lets say we are talking about Luxembourg. That little country has very little in the realm of natural resources, industry, or people. What would they do to survive? Would one of their neighbors conquer them? Would they have some kind of government change? Would they have and advantages other countries like Germany would not have? These are the things I would like to talk about. So anyone up to some "what if" discourse?
Urban areas will break down quickly as food and water and other needs disappear with a large population fighting for diminishing resources. Most likely there will be mostly local infighting until dominate groups control the area, it will be awhile before they organize and try to take over other areas. Those in the country should make out better. They have better opportunities to supply their own food and they are a distance from the masses. They may also be better prepared for survival with such things as hunting and fishing equipment and skills. If they are able to stabilize their situation, they will have to organize with neighbors before the urban mobs arrive.
I think the large Urban population would be a problem. Though the country does have the capability to feed the population. Just because there is a economic collapse that does not mean technology just disappears nor does it mean that local authorities just cease to exist. The issue would be Democracy and how our Republic is structured. Would we declare a state of emergency and suspend all of the peoples rights in order to keep anarchy at bay and feed the population in the beginning? That would mean taking control of the food supply and distributing it in a structured way so that we would have enough to last a few winters until we adjust our agriculture to a more internal focused distribution modal. Also would this be a temporary thing or would a more authoritarian government modal be needed?
These "end of days" narratives, together with homeless, poor, starving, poverty, overemphasis of natural disasters narratives, have been proven to "emerge" somehow in the U.S. only during GOP and almost never during Democrat administrations. See the old but good "Bias" by journalist Bernard Goldberg. Not worried about any impending "global economic collapse" personally.
I am not either but at some point in the history of this world it most likely will happen. So we discuss it.
We had a good look at global economic collapse in 2007-2008. We in the U.S. we lucky to climb out of it in only eight years. The regulations designed to prevent another disaster have been stripped away. Fasten your seatbelts.
Who knows what's going to happen today or tomorrow. What I do know is the international financial system is fundamentally unsustainable, corrupt, and evil, and any time we get with good growth will be avenged twicefold when the crash comes. Diversify your assets.
Maybe..... But Democrat administrations sure are great for gun sales! I guess people are just more relaxed during Republican administrations. Now go ponder on that.
If you consider the sheer enormity of (and demands on) the food supply chain every day especially around urban areas, you can see that it wouldn't take much to upset the apple cart and cause a quickly cascading chain of events that would quickly lead to chaos. In fact, I think the dependence on all this technology makes it even more probable. A well orchestrated attack on electronic banking would do. Or the collapse of one or more of the main power transmission grids and it's infrastructure. A X25 class or higher solar flare (we're due). Pandemic (we're overdue). we all get so comfortable in our modern world believing we're "protected". lol Nature always has the last word.
