poor survival

POOR SURVIVAL

In the course of a civilization collapse, everyone who survives is poor.  Which is not to say that only the poor will survive.  Plenty of the poor will be some of the first casualties.  They already are, prior to the collapse even picking up much speed.  The poor have less money to buy their freedom, and end up in prison, or have no other choice but crime just to survive ( once that first drug charge puts you in jail, you have zero chance of employment in the conventional job market.  The drug dealers don’t necessarily pick their careers ).  While bullspit bloviators like Rush and Beck cheerlead the fracking bubble as centuries long energy independence ( to their dying day, blaming the Left for shutting it down to save endangered species ), they also take time out to blame the poor for being poor.  A noble past time in this and most societies, as the criminals who legitimize their theft transfer blame to the victims.  But here is a little secret for you.  The rich transfer all wealth from the poor, then each other and in the end the wealth is all destroyed some way or another.  A few might sail away to their Caribbean islands with gold bars, but 99% of the former rich are left dangling from lampposts or huddling under the same overpass as the rest of us.  To the poor, money is a tool.  To the rich, money is a status symbol.

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When you are constricted in your ability to acquire a tool, you make do with less.  When you can never get enough status symbols, their acquisition consumes your life.  You risk money in hand to get more money ( the saying “a bird in hand beats two in the bush” is gibberish to them ).  Money blinds you, and makes you weak.  So you can forgive my mirth at the spectacle of survival writers/publishers all chasing more and more money by teaching that only more and more money will assure you survive.  The dollar is so close to the precipice, being rejected by more and more countries as oil trading chits, planning on how you will get more in the future is an archaic habit from the past.  Screw getting more dollars, focus on getting rid of the ones you have now.  You think Obammy doubling the deficit was bad?  If the PetroDollar goes off the rails during Hilary’s tenor, you get hyperinflation.  You think all your money grubbing schemes will be worth squat then?  Puny Earthling!  Your dollars are no match against my Martian ray gun ( sorry, couldn’t help the Bugs Bunny reference ).  The first step towards surviving without a valid functioning currency is to stop worshiping at the alter of Mammon.  Your mortgage on the concrete retreat full of AR’s will be as safe as the Dollar, your job and 401k.

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