Reply #4: Actually, in a perverse sort of way, it's better for those on the lowest rung.

[TalkingDog]

The spousal unit and I were discussing- the creaky, fuel leaking plane headed, quite directly, for the side of the looming fog-shrouded mountainside, that encapsulates- the world's current status and came to the conclusion that:

Although it may be dire and horrifying, the people at the bottom might actually suffer least, because they have the least to lose. They are used to poverty and "making do". Having lived in that type of poverty, I can say it ain't pretty, but I know it can be done. And, bonus, I already know how to do it.

The real suffering will happen with the young middle and upper-middle classes, who have never had a whim they could not fulfill by buying some trinket. I teach and have taught young adults in college and the inability to use a manual can opener will be the downfall of many of them, since they don't know how to cook, raise food or even what a baking potato looks like (honestly, I've had cashiers ask what common food items were in checkout because they've never seen them raw)

Adults in their late 20's didn't even get to live through the recession of the 70's as a means of comparison.

Time will tell. As for me, all I can do is live the Realist's Motto: Hope for the best. Expect the worst.


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