plan a: don’t be poor
plan b: kill myself
Do not spend money unless you really need those things. Live as a minimalist. It means some sort of isolation, but it is better than being homeless!
Probably getting a divorce, losing the kids and the dog, and getting blown up by a drone being piloted by a furry in the coming resource wars.
I pictured you from a battlefield camera drone POV and you are lugging a 5 gallon bucket of water through the rubble that used to be your neighborhood and suddenly a seeker death drone with furry cat ears whizzes overhead and drops a grenade. BLAM. Giant smoke cloud. A stream of water flows out from behind the dust cloud. Another brutal casualty of a filthy water hoarder. Serves you right for wanting to have drinking water.
Made me laugh, good one thanks. 😂
It’s not like I can get any more poor. 🤷♂️
same as last one. die.
you failed last time, didn’t you
Failed successfully
failed at something. not sure which counts as the failure tho
A YouTuber reminded me that in the 80’s we were all told we would die in a firey radioactive blast from Russia or slowly for starvation as the smoke from millions of city sized fires chokes the sun out of photosynthesis entirely, so…. Stil planning on one of those.
Plans? Sir, you’ve misjudged me.
Plant more root vegetables.
Yep, that’s the whole plan.
Probably The Winchester.
Keep working, reduce consumption of luxuries. I will still spend money, probably more than during good times. Because its important to keep spending so demand doesnt implode. I’ll keep spending at my favourite restaurants, cafes and clubs because i want them to survive. My cost cutting will be on electronics and subscription services and things from overseas.
I’m already homeless and I’ve got an okay job. So I either I keep living like I do or things become too expensive and I die.
care to expand a little? interesting (the homeless and jobful part)
Starve
Die, mostly.
I have a stable job I can’t be fired from, frugal lifestyle and substantial savings. Can’t say I’m particularly worried. 2008 didn’t affect me in any meaningful way either. Even now my country has the highest rate of unemployment in the EU yet I’ve been overworked the whole summer.
Years of data hoarding. I got a couple terabytes of my favorite shows and movies, and a gigantic backlog of steam games. I own my house and car, only pay taxes and insurance. No family. Might take up body building again. I got a couple big bags of beans and lentils so protein isn’t an issue. Also some big bags of rice and allot of fruit & veggie seeds from last season. I got replacement parts for most everything, a rain collection system that I only use to water my garden right now, but I also just got an air still so I can get water if data centers fuck up my local municipal supply. Small array of solar panels that I could add a battery system to.
Despite living right next to my downtown area, I’m already damn near off grid. If it gets really bad I might have to fence off my garden and/or move it next to my bedroom window.
