zogger's Journal: Nice Doomer Read

Just a little light hearted fictionalized extrapolation of the economy and society. Of course, I think he is being a scosh optimistic...

Is this what we are now?

[Anonymous Coward]

Baby Doomers?

*snort*

[zogger]

good 1

North Korea is leading the way?

[wowbagger]

North Korea is replacing all their money with new money, at a 100 to 1 ratio:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6940482.ece [timesonline.co.uk]

So if you had 100 old won, now you have one new won (bu-dump-chish!)

There is a limit, so many people who had significant savings are wiped out.

the moral of the story

[zogger]

There are legit and ever occurring perils with holding all your surplus wealth in the form of paper IOU promises.

I just don't understand paperbugs is all I guess. Seems rather dodgy to me to trust the biggest conmen on the planet..and that would be any citizens own government and banks, doesn't matter, north korea, the US, the UK, Dubai, you name it...because those grifters *will* rip you off in a second if they need to, and call it legal and the law.

Of course in north korea's case, eventually they'll have

Shit . . .

[npsimons]

I need to remember not to be drinking when I read your JEs (or links from them). I'm now seriously freaked out man. Considering investing in either some gold and/or "arms" (as I have neither right now (unless you count straight razors, machetes and crowbars as "arms").

The stack

[zogger]

Run your independence/ tangibles security stack in this order:

Water, Food, Shelter, Security

I've lived totally without modern civilization before, and that is exactly the list I came up with, what you would miss the most and the fastest should things break down, and what you need the most to have backups and become independent in.

There's usually some sort of water around even if the taps go dry, but it will be a hazard to chance it, so first up, a good quality water filter, and it is easy enough to