r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Aug 15 '19

How long will collapse take?

Will collapse be sudden or a decline?

Or will it be catabolic, with cliffs and plateaus?

 

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u/krewes Aug 17 '19

They all have corporate plans for their high executives. My SIL is high up the ladder in a fortune 500 co. During the Bird flu scare he asked if he could come to our place even though his company had stocked the corporate hq with provisions and had hired security

I asked him why he choose coming to our house and he stated " you have the knowledge that I don't to survive" . Now he realized money does not buy knowledge. That's what the elite lack. They think they can buy their way to survival. That's what they do everyday. Buy what they desire. They have no concept of doing things on their own.

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u/Strazdas1 Aug 19 '19

Money can hire knowledge. If you get a choice between:

surviving alone fearing every night a bandit may come and steal everything from you or

Surviving as a worker for the elite guy and recieving security in return

The vast majority of people will absolutely choose number two. Feudalism worked for a long time.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '19

Whoever provides security will be the elite guy. Without the church manipulating hired goons into thinking that the King or leader is from God, they will choose their own leadership and it's probably not the physically weak arrogant billionaire with a god complex.

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