I don't think you're catching my drift exactly, but in any event the person best prepared has a better chance than he who isn't.
I could your future shadenfrueden quite well.
In the very unlikely change that society breaks down like you describes (total collapse) it not going to work out like you imagine it will.
What you might get from having land to farm, is a leg up on the urbanites if our depression continues to get worse.
That is assuming, of course, that you own your land outright and your local community of parasitic local government doesn't tax you out of it before they lose all power to condemn your land.
That's a big if becuase usually the last people to lose power when society is totally falling apart is the pigs who caused it in the first place.
That is true. But I own it outright by inheritence.
Well that helps to be sure.
The taxes to the state which I suspect would still function at some level wouldn't be particularly hard to pay since land here is relatively cheap.
Yeah now they are...but local communities (especially the good old boys who so often control them) will raise your taxes as needed.
And when you are describing a TOTAL COLLAPSE, know that while that is happening, the mechanisms of taxation and condemnation are tyrpically the last things to go,
I was thinking more of temporary collapse.
Okay, then I agree. In the event of a very very
very short term collapse, you will be better off.
The nature of people who form up into groups like we saw in Katrina. The good and the bad. I'm simply saying in that situation I think I have the capacity to survive but I couldn't do it without other people obviously.
Yup.
Your neighbors are better assets in that event than your guns or even your stockpiled goods.
Because without the support of your neighbors you're just a target.
