It’s more about building your life to maximize self sufficiency with the understanding that you will still need to rely on society for some needs. Also living somewhere with low climate risk and high confidence of access to fresh water for the remainder of your life (and that of loved ones, if applicable).

When contraction occurs, if you’ve planned properly, it’ll be news you read about, not impact on your life.

TLDR Optimize for the expectation of persistent volatility.