If the bull really hit the fan,global depression,which would you be?

Question

Have you been saving your money, paid the house off,bought gold? I'll rephrase the question as it was deleted a few minutes ago. If we had a really bad depression, like the 30's, 1/3rd of the population is out of work. You are out of work. You can't escape it, its' everywhere. In certain areas people are quite literally starving. Just play along for a minute, what would you honestly do: Hunker down for the long haul, if you had a weapons lair,would you become a hunter, seeker (i.e. a kind of ruthless Robin Hood taking food from the wealthy for you, your family and friends) or would you join a militia funded by wealthy people to preserve their own property knowing fully well that you may have to shoot fellow citizens scavenging for food? Would you become a hunter out in the wild forests if you knew how? Join some cooperative farm culture? Be specific- its' just for fun.

Answer 1

I would be shooting back at the wealthy funded militia

Answer 2

I envision a kind of Mad Max Thunderdome world if civilization folds up.  There will be megadeaths from starvation and disease as cities burn from riots by citizens desperate for food or fuel.  Governments will be impotent in the face of worldwide masses of people forming small 'tribes' or armies and taking what they can find by force and to heck with whomever they take it from.  "Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and David Pournelle does a good job of describing what civilization might well become when the electricity goes off and the fuel supplies are exhausted and not replenished. It is not a pretty picture. Only those without a lot of ethical baggage and a willingness to eat what or whoever is available will survive in such a world. The more isolated and prepared people will have the best chances.

Answer 3

If?

The important thing is to have some money and basic assets w. no outstanding debt now as in the next stage of the cycle interest rates will rise inexorably to 16%.

In the UK your best bet is to be in local government fixed rent housing, if we come out the other side w/out having resorted to WW3 a little savings should buy enough cheap houses for the smart poor to become tomorrow's landlords..

Answer 4

I would go into the survival mode which means I have stores for 2 years + for such an event plus the needed defense weapons to protect our supplies. I have put away seed and necessary cultivation products for planting. I have a permanent water source. We live in a very rural area so the threat of scavengers will be small plus my 2 neighbors and I are in this together. It is no joke to us. We have made our plans and will sick by them .