The unpayable national debt exceeding $39 trillion and the unfunded social welfare liabilities exceeding $200 trillion are guaranteed to create a governmental financial collapse. Credit card debt, mortgage debt, auto loan debt and student loan debt are at all-time highs, with defaults accelerating.
We are losing a war, AI is taking our jobs, inflation is soaring, and the average schmuck is buying stocks at all-time highs, when a crash is inevitable.
Maybe a few people will move to some remote area and form off the grid, self-sufficient communities, and maybe the overlords/rulers will ignore them for a while, but eventually they’ll come for them, too.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but I’ve read a lot of history and have been studying current events for decades now, and I just don’t see any way out of the virtual prison the oligarchs have been slowly building for many years.