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The economic collapse of the west. The great reset is coming...

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How is 72 hours of rice going to matter?

That depends. How many people from the list are we leaving in for dinner?

Yeah. The way we run our countries is idiotic. Zero resilience. First concern after floods is getting back to job, even before all the water is drained and mud cleaned, because working people live paycheck to paycheck and so on.

Businesses try to keep minimum stock. Single disruption in integrated circuit supply disables whole industries. And so on.

Capitalism is incompatible with resiliency.

If this is the sentiment on the Silicon Valley Bulletin Board that is Hacker News it may be time to take this stuff seriously

> Silicon Valley Bulletin Board

The participating commenter base on this site has been much wider than could be described that way for many years.

At least a decade. I’ve never been there and joined early in my career when I was told by mentors that it was a good source of up to date news on technology and the industry

I think the implication with that phrasing is that HN is more left-leaning (like Silicon Valley), which traditionally isn't into "prepping", so this "pro-prepping" article is an interesting anomaly, perhaps even a harbinger.

This is incorrect. Left-leaning preppers grow food and medicinal plants in their garden, install solar panels, and get vaccines, rather than stock up on guns and ammo.

Silicon valley is hardly an oracle of all things to come

This is a perennial topic:

- 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/15/why-silicon-val...

- 2022, https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prep...

It’s tougher to quantify and building a connected community than just profiting off users, though.

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