A growing interest in preparing for society to collapse shows liberals and conservatives alike are pessimistic about the government's competence.
      • Billiam@lemmy.world
        11·
        11 months ago

        “Your money will be worthless! Buy gold now! And definitely don’t think about why we’d want to take your money and give you our gold if we think money is going to be worthless!”

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          81·
          11 months ago

          “Hello, kind sir. I am starving to death and I see you are cooking a rat on a spit. Would you accept this pretty yellow rock for a piece of rat?”

          • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
            6·
            11 months ago

            You know what I think would be good to trade after the collapse? Dental hygiene stuff. If you’ve been eating canned beans and dead rats for a few months I bet you’d love to properly brush your teeth.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    11 months ago

    Preppers think that stocking up and hoarding supplies will somehow make them a one-man army capable of taking on the world if society were to collapse into some Mad-Max hellscape.

    What they don’t realize is that stockpiling those supplies is just going to make them a target. And I don’t care who you are: If you make yourself that big of a target, people will come for your stuff. En masse. And I don’t care if you’re armed to the teeth Schwarzenegger style: You cannot survive a horde of people who have decided they want your stuff and are ready to kill you for it.

    All preppers are doing is organizing a nice pile of supplies for the first group of people to come around and decide that his house would make a good place to camp.