[cjk2]

I can grow vegetables and fix my own car. However I’ll be dead before I have to rely on either of those.

My hedge is to simply be less fucked than the person with no assets and huge debts. The world doesn’t go to shit with a boom but a slow whimper.

[poldk]

Really? I can think of at least a few cases in the last 100 years where it boomed unexpectedly; world war, energy crisis, recessions, depressions, pandemics…

Someone’s survivorship bias has lead to confirmation they’re ready for anything it seems.

Most Fortune 500s of last generation are gone. Good luck! Count me as one that is not making political choices with yours in mind, and would, in the future, not be honoring some story you have to tell about an unknowable past.

[cjk2]

I think you missed the point. I'm not ready for any large change. No one is. What I have done is get myself into a position where I can do what I want to do before there is a change and hold out as long as possible. It's a dampening effect, a parachute. I'll be in the same shit as everyone else, just later.