unemployed in the apocalypse 3 of 3

UNEMPLOYED IN THE APOCALYPSE 3

Great, thanks Jim.  It isn’t bad enough I’m trying to afford enough ammunition for the coming gun grab, now you are telling me I need to prep for mass prolonged unemployment!  Heh, did I write the rules for prepping, or am I just the messenger?  Now you know why through most of the history of the prepping movement the answers being sold all tend to be simplistic and incomplete.  Actually prepping for real life is a lot more involved and convoluted than prepping for fantasy is. 

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It is a lot easier to just hold gold, or just prep for a three week camping trip, or just arsenal up than it is to prepare for multi-century dark ages.  We don’t have the luxury of only preparing in a grossly incomplete manner.  Okay, I grant you, just from age alone the majority of the loyal minion horde won’t make it to the apocalypse or very far through it, let alone from the actual warfare that will accompany it.  We prep because we might live.  There are no guarantees of living even after prepping.  But one guarantee of death is to NOT prep.  And One Answer Prepping isn’t even prepping as much as it is shopping.

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Stacking gold is an invitation for torture and death.  Prepping for a few weeks of camping until the earthquake rubble stops dancing will do dingus-all for an economic collapse or anything else.  Just stocking guns will not see you through an economic collapse unless you sell your arsenal and there is a thriving black market for it ( if you aren’t tortured and killed first ).  The most likely event you need to prep for is an economic collapse, and this is NOT theory or faulty analytics.  This is simply news headline observation.  I want you to think of one thing right now.  Afghanistan.

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Do you understand that this conflict ( calling it a war would be too embarrassing ) is almost twenty years old, as one fellow doom writer just pointed out?  Two.  Friggin.  Decades.  First, Afghanistan is noted as the graveyard of empires for a very good reason.  Invade, and whatever cosmic forces of your choice puts a little asterisk by your name which denotes you are very next empire to eat feces and expire.  Second, even if it is a conflict instead of a war, we spend enough money to qualify the occupation as two full grown wars.  And expensive wars ruin imperial economies ( even if they haven’t invaded the Haunted Country ). 

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How many empires do you know on the downside of power that can survive twenty years of war?  Even without the petrodollar or peak oil or anything else, Afghanistan ALONE should prove to you our economic demise.  I could probably go one to a good book length talking about our economic collapse.  Let me veer off in a motion sickness inducing move and get into the mechanics of unemployment, instead.  This crap is easier than knowing which hole to stick your junk in.  Savings is no longer sufficient.  As in, “save at least six months worth of expenses”.  You need oh so much more.

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But you can’t afford all that much more, can you?  Because even if food and living expenses is far more important than anything other than your first affordable gun ( if you are poor, just buy the Wal-Mart single shot 12g and call it good.  It will suffice for nearly everything ), you are still tapped out financially.  But financial insurance isn’t much of an added expense.  It is more of a bonus.  If you are getting out of debt ( NOT by paying it all off, dumb ass.  You don’t have time.  By repossessing all possible goods and declaring bankruptcy on the rest.  If you are not completely melting down your credit score, you are being a pussy and won’t accomplish anything ), you are on your way towards prepping for unemployment.

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Getting into debt again or at all sometime in the future is about as good of an idea as staying in Afghanistan another decade would be.  Hump your humping credit score.  Only idiots get into debt for prep ( or while prepping.  Or while civilization is melting down ).  Nuke the son of a bitch.  Now you are living on a lot less.  How easy was that?  Once you are living on less, everything gets easier.  Preps get easier, and saving money gets easier.  If you hung in there the last five years and paid off debt even as I was recommending you not, congratulations.  Without any evidence except blind faith, you timed the collapse.

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Do you Honest Injun think the rest of you will be so lucky?  Nobody can time the collapse.  I was living the collapse thirty years ago, refusing college debt or a mortgage ( I don’t count the five year note I had in Florida on a mobile home.  I walked away from that like I did a car payment ).  I was twenty years EARLY.  And I’m far from close to crying about any lost opportunities.  Better way early than a little bit late.  I’m not telling everybody to walk away from debt.  I’m telling you if that is the only way, do it.  Yesterday.  The whole trick to unemployment investing is not to save more money, but to keep stretching out that money longer by continually cutting expenses. 

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When I was paying lot rent on a RV, my savings didn’t cover three months of living expenses.  Once I got my land to live on, even while making payments my savings were now ten months ( for the same amount of money in savings ).  As soon as the land was paid off, that went to almost two years.  Who has better unemployment insurance, the redneck in a trailer or a civil servant making double the average wage?  Two thousand bucks sees the redneck through a year.  It sees the “rich” guy through one month, max.

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This is NOT rocket science.  All of you know this.  But most are probably still hoping the Full Employment During A Nuke Attack paradigm is still somehow magically valid.  That somehow we can return to yesteryear where your employer somehow thinks you are as valuable as you think you are.  Somehow Leave It To Beaver still holds and we can remain middle class luxurious.  No, I’m sorry.  Sooner or later you will downsize drastically.  Voluntarily or not.  Peace.

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