Sorry about the trash title, couldn’t think of something more elaborate or appropriate. Also sorry if this isn’t the best place to pose this question.

So, given the state of world affairs right now, with the decoupling from US currency, soaring prices, impending recession, possible open war, etc., I want to ask fellow US comrades as well as comrades living in other countries like the UK who will be seriously impacted by this: How do you intend to survive the oncoming possible collapse?

As we all know, any time there is any sort of crisis, the wealthy are completely unaffected and the burden always falls entirely on working class people. Starvation, homelessness, increased violence, looting, etc. will affect everyone. My household has what would normally be a comfortable income and already this shit is starting to affect us. Or at least that is what the growing empty spaces in our fridge and pantry are telling us, and our electricity bill which doubled since two months ago despite the wattage being about the same.

While the collapse of western hegemony will be good for the world at large, collapse doesn’t mean disappearance. After all, the Spanish Empire did not suddenly vanish from the world stage just because they lost sea dominance, the United States still might survive as an independent, reactionary, nuclear armed, ultra-conservative, capitalist, shit hole where now the poor are significantly poorer and all those troops stationed overseas are granted law enforcement rights domestically or whatever.

And sorry my post is so US-centric, but I can only reasonably speak to local conditions and not as much those of other western nations. I’m interested in what those comrades have to say though for sure! While there are certainly differences in local material conditions there are also a lot of similarities, as well as solutions that can apply to multiple problems.

I know (or at least sincerely suspect) that it won’t be some world ending apocalypse or whatever doomers will have you believe, but innocent working class people will die.

So the question again is: How do you intend to survive the oncoming possible collapse, and possibly even help others?

    • bleepingblorpOP
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      2 years ago

      You did! ^_^

      Well, full collapse or not, I highly suspect material conditions will only greatly worsen for working class people over the next few decades. I don’t see fuel prices returning to pre-Ukraine prices; the oil companies are siphoning that money out of us like fire siphons oxygen, nor do I see food prices going back for the same reasons. The owning class have found that each crisis for the working class means exponential increases in their personal wealth. And that debt ball is mostly for funding bombs to kill other poor folk.

      So while I agree that the shitcan kicking will continue, it’ll still cause life or death situations for many.