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Hopefully I'll be dead by 65
Want assistance? I haven't got much experience with people, but I do have slaughtered a bunch of poultry, I have my own axe and I'm quite keen to help
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Man, a lot of you are going to be absolutely fucked if we somehow don't have societal collapse.
No wonder so many people keep pushing accelerationist rhetoric.
The average lifespan in the US has fallen 3 years in a row and is the same as the part of the UK with the worst average lifespan. With the destruction of the CDC and the removal of food safety inspections they keep attempting, I don't think many of us will have to worry about it.
Besides, Berretas are cheap.
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Got plenty in my retirement pot, but I've been saving up bottle caps just in case.
So it's people like you who's caps we'll mysteriously find inside of a pre-war safe??
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Have fatal illness. 2 or so years left. Suckers!
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Money can always be made worthless, so the key to post depression bubble economics will be commodities and the ability to earn an income.
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I'm putting my trust in my bottle cap collection.
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Have fatal illness. 2 or so years left. Suckers!
If so 2 years later would you like to not miss a fascist dictator?
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Have fatal illness. 2 or so years left. Suckers!
I admire that you've got a sense of humour about it. How are you holding up?
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I admire that you've got a sense of humour about it. How are you holding up?
the drugs are still sort of working.
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Civilization is resilient
It wont end just because of a couple problems that could kill billions of people
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The average lifespan in the US has fallen 3 years in a row and is the same as the part of the UK with the worst average lifespan. With the destruction of the CDC and the removal of food safety inspections they keep attempting, I don't think many of us will have to worry about it.
Besides, Berretas are cheap.
Sure, you can try one on yourself first
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I had a free ticket out of here and I fucked it up by getting an organ transplant FML
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Civilization is resilient
It wont end just because of a couple problems that could kill billions of people
Honestly, true.
We are indeed going to face massive, catastrophic changes to society broadly.
But they will take place over such timespans that most people are just going to get used to things being shitty and the death-tolls from storms, flooding, starvation, forced-migration... it will just be more dull noise in the background for decades and decades.
The "nothing ever happens" shitheads are in the middle of things happening, but our attention-spans have been so thoroughly eroded that people don't think anything is real unless it literally shakes them out of their bed.
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The things that never happen are happening right now but our collective attention spans have been dulled to the point that you can't recognize the actual swing of history as it's unfolding. Everyone just gets used to incremental changes to life so that it feels like nothing changes, because time isn't real and your memory is malleable.
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So it's people like you who's caps we'll mysteriously find inside of a pre-war safe??
I was in whatsinthis when it started. I still have a shitpost up there that I’ve got an update for but never posted.
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I just want to live long enough to fuck an alien
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I just want to live long enough to fuck an alien
I just want to live long enough for the anti-aging vaccine to be invented.
BRB, off to go wish for more wishes...
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Honestly, true.
We are indeed going to face massive, catastrophic changes to society broadly.
But they will take place over such timespans that most people are just going to get used to things being shitty and the death-tolls from storms, flooding, starvation, forced-migration... it will just be more dull noise in the background for decades and decades.
The "nothing ever happens" shitheads are in the middle of things happening, but our attention-spans have been so thoroughly eroded that people don't think anything is real unless it literally shakes them out of their bed.
People also have this idea that collapse is this overnight thing, like a zombie apocalypse. But while that does sometimes happen historically, a gradual degradation is much more common and realistic. What that actually looks like on the ground is just a general decline in the standard of living all around. In an advanced capitalist economy, we rarely have actual shortages, where the supply of goods simply runs out. Rather, whenever the supply of anything gets tight, the price soars until demand drops.
As things degrade, everything's just going to become ever more expensive. People used to eating beef will have to switch to chicken. Then they'll switch to tofu. Eventually just rice and beans. And as prices rise, the world's poorest, a few million at a time, will find that they can't even afford rice and beans, and no one will be able to afford to give them food aid either.
Housing will gradually become ever-more expensive. We have a finite capacity to construct housing. And as natural disasters destroy more and more homes and infrastructure, we have to spend more and more of that finite capacity just rebuilding what we've lost, rather than constructing new homes. This drives the cost up ever-higher. People switch from owning their home, to renting an apartment, to living with roommates, to abandoning the nuclear family entirely and living in large extended households again.
This is what collapse actually looks like. Prices on everything slowly rise until we look around and realize that the global population has been cut in half by starvation and all but the riches survivors are living in penury.
