re: What happens if the US Collapses?

Malthusiasm is a myth, much like Peak Oil. Innovation has a tendency to continue to unlock greater gains in efficiency, and economics tend to have major implications on how many children families have. These factors mean resources rarely have these malthusian crisis outside of areas of limited geographic scope and time caused by some sort of black swan event (massive supply chain disruptions such as to energy or fertilizer).

Stagflation is far more likely. That’s sorta where I see us going, the way of Japan.

Remember, the growth in population of the world is about to stop and start rapidly shrinking just because of birth rates. Much of the developed world has already started shrinking. Russia, Germany, Poland, and China are already shrinking rapidly. The U.S. has the best birth rates and youngest population in the developed world. Money has to go somewhere, and we’re (despite our faults) the safest bet.

We have no shortage of fuel or food here. The only thing that can threaten the United States is shortages of superconductors (which we are rapidly building out capacity for), and government restricting our ability to access and utilize our own resources.

The biggest challenge worldwide is going to be fertilizer.

Conservatives will survive because they have guns, ammo, and gasoline, and create what the founding fathers created.

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I would move to a place with cheap cost of living (Costa Rica)

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There's a lot of options, but this one doesn't seem bad.


Even though this won't happen in our lifetimes, playing out the hypothetical...it's not like something huge like this would happen overnight out of nowhere, so you'd seemingly have time to plan ahead, pull your retirement out and put it into something where you can move to another country and still access it(hate to say it but crypto? lol)

Taking that retirement fund down to a place like CR, I imagine I can get a pretty decent setup there. No clue what I'd do for work going forward, but I think I'd have enough money on hand to figure it out.

Also no clue how establishing citizenship and shite like that works in a small country like that.

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Are you talking about the US government? Define collapse. In this scenario, the US still holds it's military assets?

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If govt collapses, then that means no incoming revenue which in turn means no troops are paid and no equipment is maintained, or fueled, no ammunition is available beyond what is already in the armories - thus - no military assets to speak of.

When the Soviet Union collapsed, their military went for months on end without pay and with scant provisions. If you were in the right place at the right time, an AK-47 could be had for about $80.00 American cash. (And that was on the high end.) I would imagine it would rapidly devolve into something like that should our government collapse.

As I said you bring it at YOUR own risk your day will not end well. That is all

Would this prevent the government from paying a $1.2 BILLION ransom to countries who have taken our citizens hostage?

People would form tribes for survival.

Housing prices will definitely come down, but interest rates stay above 7%

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Anyone not stocking up on gold and silver is foolish,

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Please share some more of your wisdom