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Last year, the Federal Reserve pumped over $3 Trillion dollars into the economy during the pandemic to keep it afloat. I remember seeing dozens of posts and memes on social media but I never gave it a thought.
Today, one of my homies sent me a mini documentary explaining how money is created and how it is used. Since the Great Recession in 2008 (I didn't even know there was a recession at that time!), the economy hasn't improved by much.
When the pandemic hit, it's impact on the global economy was so huge that the government's last resort to printing more money could barely get it into life support.
There has been a chip shortage. 2021 marked the year where silicon became more valuable than gold. Nobody cares about gold. Nobody's crying about not being able to have access to some golden necklace or ring or whatever. Everybody's talking about silicon. The price of GPUs has skyrocketed. Electronic devices using silicon chips now cost more than ever.
There's a crisis underway. A crisis that will make just regular survival more difficult than any time in history. I mean, look at Lebanon. I wrote an article about it recently. A single explosion wiped the country's economy out. One explosion. The Lebanese are barely surviving. They're rationing food, waiting in line for hours to get fuel, have no medicines, no running water and the paper money, has become worthless.
This puts every country on the planet in a critical zone. One pandemic, made America pump 3 Trillion dollars worth of nothing, into the economy. One explosion, brought Lebanon to it's knees. Just think about the situations that are about to arise in the future. Is the world prepared for it? Are the people prepared for it?
In a capitalist world ruled by corporations, where the rich few have enslaved the rest of the population, how are people going to survive when the economy crashes? Anything can have an impact on the economy. We aren't prepared for the vast majority of what-ifs. Most people have never even given a thought to what-ifs outside their normal lives. When disaster strikes, it's totally unexpected, and they're left helpless and powerless. They can't do anything.
It is time to look into off-grid living. Most of the world isn't prepared for off-grid living. People can't live without the internet, or their electronic devices, and their smart cars and air conditioners and Starbucks and McDonald's. I've learned to cook. Most people can't cook for shit. Cooking isn't enough. You'll have to learn farming and a myriad of skills mostly accessible to people in the countryside. A city nerd doesn't know how to cut firewood, or milk a cow, or build a shelter, or defend himself from wildlife attacks. But this is all stuff that could come in handy when there's an apocalyptic situation. If you want a long and comfortable life, you'd have to learn a lot of skills that are considered old-fashioned, ancient and useless by modern standards. But there are skills that will make a difference. If you're living in Lebanon with 4 hours of electricity, computing, programming and all nerd work is rendered useless. Without electricity, there will be no power for your computers and WiFi and internet. How would you survive then? Imagine there was no internet, no electricity, no running water, and no money. How would you survive?
There's people who would kill others for food and water. But how long would one keep killing for food? Eventually you'd have robbed everyone who had food, and then nobody would have any food left. What would you do then?