I mentioned in an earlier stream that I wanted to do a post on the current coming crash to try and predict it better, and I mentioned that my estimate timewise is perhaps end of 2025, but it may happen sooner, or, more likely, they may find new and novel ways to kick the can down the road while habituating us even more to ever tighter controls on everything we do and how we use any money we may have or be allowed to have. All while roping us into serfdom with digital money and so on.
Depending on your situation, your strategies may vary as to how to plan for the future. My small Role-Playing Game , set in the current Zombie Apocalypse, actually explains and highlights the various different strategies one might employ regardless of if you are a destitute millennial with no money and only debt to your name, or a capable millionaire.
The strategy overall is the same for everyone. Get rid of debt, or outrun it somehow, and stick to physical assets. The elite will use the concept of debt to try and assail your assets. So even if your home is paid off but you have still 50k of student loan debt, then guess what, they will try to take your house. This will work in some cases and be received by hillbillies with shotguns in other places, and of course, I can’t advocate anything illegal, but as we are talking about an RPG Game in the book, various concepts that might not play out well in real life might work just fine in the game, and one should also keep in mind that there are different risks in different countries. Depending on your referee for the game, a New Yorker that buys a bunch of land in the Okavango Delta and moves there with some serious off-grid solutions, without telling anyone anything, is probably fairly safe from debt collectors for a good number of years anyway. Although he mightn’t be as safe from the predations of the local military or even cross-border military when the SHTF properly.
The main thing you should focus on in real life, above all other considerations is mental fortitude.
If you’re depressed about being single, poor and with few prospects, change your frame. You can see it as being free and having a chance to try anything to better your lot in life without worrying about others or dependents. If you have a family and are poor and in debt, your condition is going to be more stressful, and perhaps the available solutions are less, but as they say, where there is a will, there is a way. I know a few people in that situation, but they are all slowly trying to alter their situation. No matter your current condition, you CAN improve it. Is it certain? No. Is it hard? Sure, it can be. But if you just keep making progress one step at a time, the changes over a period of months and years add up. So consolidate, try to get rid of any debt and make yourself as self-sufficient as possible.
The ideal solution is to be debt-free, own land and a home where you have either none or very low land-taxes and you own your land outright, this basically precludes the entire USA, but if you live in the USA you’ll be better placed than I to know the details. The advantage of the USA are it has a LOT of guns and you can own pretty much all of them. The down-side is that it is indeed a police state and if they want to get you they can.
Take these days between Christmas and New Year to strategise your future and my suggestion is to have emergency plan A and preferably also B and maybe C, while you work to your Blue-Sky goal X.
Above all, do NOT live in a state of constant fear. Teach your mind to be disciplined and resolve issues one at a time in an orderly fashion.
Make 2024 the year where you can get ready for whatever is coming.
May God bless you, find you and show you the true path.
Thanks for your energetic reminders and encouragement. I’m debt free but unsure of my next steps. I’m not in the USA or the EU.
Assuming you’re in Africa or South America, the strategy varies quite a bit on whether you’re a local or not, and what local laws are like. Overall the strategy remains the same, to be as self-sufficient as possible, but if you’re a Lilly-white farmer in Zimbabwe, you may be closer to being a zombie victim than if you’re a brown-skinned local in rural Brazil that knows the lay of the land and has some farmland in a small community you are part of.
I can probably give you a few more pointers with a bit more detail of your situation without it being too specific.