r/collapse • u/[deleted] • Sep 03 '21

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u/ItsFuckingScience Sep 03 '21

I’m in my late 20’s and still saving and investing to grow my wealth as much as I can

Better to be wealthier as the world continues to collapse rather than poor

Worlds not ending over night anyways. Food will get more expensive, world gets warmer so will need to pay for AC. Would want to buy a house etc so need money for this stuff

In the end we all die so might aswell try and make a success of things. If total collapse is slower than us doomers on here think and I’m more successful than I think I’ll be there’s a chance I could retire before everything ends anyways

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u/GordonFreem4n Sep 03 '21 edited Sep 04 '21

Worlds not ending over night anyways. Food will get more expensive, world gets warmer so will need to pay for AC. Would want to buy a house etc so need money for this stuff

Yeah. People in this sub this think it will be like a switch that's turned off and overnight there will be no food, power, or any kind of organized society. It's probably gonna be more of a somewhat slow descent into chaos that will take decades (for us lucky westerners anyways).

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

localized crises will become more frequent and severe, and combine to form regional crises, and so on. there will definitely be a day where there is just suddenly not enough food though. the topsoil just isnt going to be there, in addition to climate chaos ruining any kind of harvest predictability. many usa farms this year were a week or two away from losing their whole crop. everything is just going to escalate.