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by autoexec 683 days ago
This is pretty common for people who have struggled in the past and people who are uncertain about the future. There's a lot of uncertainty about the long term stability and sustainability of things right now.

It's why doomsday preppers are a growing market and a rising industry (https://www.newsweek.com/doomsday-prepping-246-billion-indus...), it's why rich people are building bunkers and securing citizenship in multiple countries so that they can jump ship if the one they're in starts sinking.

Once people's anxieties are alleviated by confidence in their security there should be fewer people with lots of money worried about spending it.