I’m seeing the worst hurt people are the lower and middle classes. Food and housing inflation has been out of control and they have difficulty finding alternatives to relying on the system for food/housing/work etc. The top 10% of people are able to ride the inflation in asset prices and even sometimes benefit from it, because they are living on less of their income than people further down the economic chain. Generally this is always the case, of course. The biggest problem we have in the modern world is that historically, the working poor losing everything wasn’t that big a deal, because the household economy meant they could replace those items themselves. In the modern world, we’re so conditioned to (a) buy anything we think we “need” or want, and (b) have lost the household economy basis, that working poor and middle class are completely clueless about how to get by without consumer goods. That’s also, of course, the issue with most modern “preparedness” culture. It’s not about preparing people to do without, or to make do by replacing essentials themselves. It’s about convincing you to buy a bunch of shit to make life more comfortable. ———————————————————– Neighbor has been running his horses here, most likely for that purpose. Often see him and his friend with the horse trailer at the local store, so no doubt that’s where they have been – running supplies in Western North Carolina. Still amazed we were the only house with a generator(s), provisions and coms for the thing when it hit our mountain. The guys packing in goods in that country are doing yeoman’s work of a tough task. Of course, they’re also filling a very traditional, historical task for packers in that country, where supplies were brought over the Gap, via pack string as often, or more often, than via wagon. It’s always mind-boggling to me, every winter, when people in town start losing their shit, because their power gets knocked out by winter storms, and they don’t have the resources to sit it out. Or, the roads get drifted in, and they have neither the capability of clearing a path to the maintained roads, nor the resources to simply sit it out til spring. Of course, the idea of skiing or snowshoeing to the store to get things they “need” is so foreign to them as to be gobbledy-gook. Even when we were back East, and a tornado would knock out the power, and we’d be the only ones with power….I’d go, “What? Tornadoes are a NEW thing? How many times a year does your power get knocked out, and you don’t have a generator? Or, at least some candles and gas lanterns?” ———————————————————- Check out the rest here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/campf...paign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link Continue reading...
