I don’t know why it is people jump straight from an economy tanking to The Road Warrior. It’s not as if any crisis means total crisis. There might just be a few days where people are willing to accept gold rather than sneaking up behind you and bashing your brains in for the clothes on your back.
I can understand what you’re addressing, and in nearly normal times with rough spots, you’re right.
It does seem to me that we live in a rather precarious situation these days. Something as simple as a major gas shortage could push things over a cliff.
What would your town be like if your major grocery stores couldn’t get resupplied for a month? How would that shortage affect you in other ways? How many businesses could survive for more than a month without sales receipts?
We’ve seen how the closing of a few refineries can affect us. What if even 33% of our refineries went off-line for six months?
While I agree with you for the most part, I don’t think we’re as far from a possible complete short-circuiting of our system, as we would like to think.
Compared to other places around the planet, we’ve been spoiled for a long time. These things can happen here.
I would submit that in highly populated urban centers, things could get ugly in days. Have-nots would be going after haves in weeks.