I'm just going to remind everyone who thinks of moving to somewhere rural; The elites live in the cities.

What you think happens when the supply chain fails: The cities descend into chaos and the people in buttfuck nowhere weather the storm while guarding their property from the chimps spilling out of the urban centers.

What actually happens when the supply chain fails: The military rolls up to the farm and tells the farmer their goods are being taken as a matter of national security. They ship all their food to the city, and leave the rural folk to starve to death. This will happen before people even realize the shortage is coming, unlike a mere price hike, the shortage will not be televised. It be privileged information.

Of course, this is assuming the supply chain fails.

The reality is that nobody knows how shit's going to go down until it actually happens. The collapse is probably not going to look the way any of us expect it to. We all imagine some big event that people are going to be able to mark on a calendar, but such a watershed moment may honestly never come to pass. Instead, you might just see a slow, rotting decline until the United States looks like a giant, spread out version of eastern Europe where everything sucks and everyone is poor, nobody trusts anyone, and there's just a pervasive, perpetual, low-level misery. Nobody starves, but nobody has anything to smile about either.

I'm just going to remind everyone who thinks of moving to somewhere rural; The elites live in the cities.

What you think happens when the supply chain fails: The cities descend into chaos and the people in buttfuck nowhere weather the storm while guarding their property from the chimps spilling out of the urban centers.

What actually happens when the supply chain fails: The military rolls up to the farm and tells the farmer their good are being taken as a matter of national security. They ship all their food to the city, and leave the rural folk to starve to death. This will happen before people even realize the shortage is coming, unlike a mere price hike, the shortage will not be televised. It be privileged information.

Of course, this is assuming the supply chain fails.

The reality is that nobody knows how shit's going to go down until it actually happens. The collapse is probably not going to look the way any of us expect it to. We all imagine some big event that people are going to be able to mark on a calendar, but such a watershed moment may honestly never come to pass. Instead, you might just see a slow, rotting decline until the United States looks like a giant, spread out version of eastern Europe where everything sucks and everyone is poor, nobody trusts anyone, and there's just a pervasive, perpetual, low-level misery. Nobody starves, but nobody has anything to smile about either.