[shshshd]

10k is not that much money. I know it takes a lot of effort to save, but its small change. If you have somewhere to store it, buy consumable goods.

- Several hundred dollars each of tuna, prosciutto, a wheel of Parmesan, jerky, rice, flour.

- If you have an oil/wood heater fill up the tank. If gas buy plenty of wool sweaters.

- If you have to drive to work, get a scooter.

- If you live in Czechia, or Finland, (you're not Swiss I gather) a rifle, shotgun and/or pistol. Otherwise upgrade your locks

- Any left over money (if any) buy an assortment of gold, silver and what not.

This might all seem doom gloom, and it is. But inflation is the least of our concerns. We're headed straight to an early 90s Soviet style collapse of our economies.

[pavlov]

I can’t really agree with your prognosis, but honestly this advice is amazing because outside of the apocalyptic context it’s so fun. Got $10k? Buy a scooter, prosciutto and a wheel of Parmesan!

Why shouldn’t I spend like an Italian small-town bachelor in 1975, if the world is ending anyway.

[bergenty]

But why? Who wants to eat all that processed food when you can just have fresh food instead.

[Firmwarrior]

Probably not a bad idea to have a few weeks' worth of non-perishable food around just in case there's a big power outage/earthquake/whatever

If this whole societal house of cards comes tumbling down, though, I think most of the people posting on HackerNews are going to be screwed (relevant: https://ext.penny-arcade.com/comic/2019/03/15/deer-diary )

[8note]

If I want a lot of tuna, I'm going dumpster diving at a sysco.

Same with flour, really

[roflyear]

Why do you think the world is ending?