How to minimize one's damage in case the usa kicks the bucket?

Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net
Sun Oct 11 18:02:16 PDT 2015


> On 10/05/2015 03:51 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote:
>> The financial situation in the usa is quite grave.
>>
>> Assume very severe financial crisis hits the usa relatively soon causing
>> hyperinflation there and possibly in other countries.
>>
>> I am interested:  How to minimize one's damage in this situation?
>>
>> Some suspicions: Banks/exchanges are known Ponzi schemes, so how much
>> the banking system will remain intact is unclear to me.
>>
>> Some possibilities
>> real estate outside usa
>> gold (is gold certificate secure enough?)
>> bitcoins (some people got burnt, security of bitcoins not clear to me)
>> ???
>>
>> Please post political rants in other thread.

On 10/11/15, Douglas Lucas <dal at riseup.net> wrote:
> Reviving this thread. Where's the altruism in "how to minimize one's
> damage"? Why's the model here for resisting economic oppression a
> survivalist hiding in an encrypted bunker, rather than the people of
> Burkina Faso using sticks and rocks (not cryptography) to force
> oligarchs out of their country? In Mexico they were recently burning
> polling stations, but we were discussing hoarding Bitcoin to ensure our
> self-interest? Where's the idealism in such selfishness?

Basically I agree, please feel free to make suggestions :)



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