Comment by TheOtherHobbes
4 days ago
This is - in passing - why billionaire prepper fantasies of surviving an apocalypse on a private island are insane. Sooner or later spares and consumables will start running out, and without global supply chains nothing is repairable.
You might get ten years if you stock up on ten of everything you can think of, plus a few things you can't, but after that things will start breaking down, and you're going to start running out of replacement parts.
And you'll be out of consumables long before then.
I had this discussion with my friend before and it really doesn't take long until you really are screwed in an apocalypse scenario.
We could barely agree on the probable scenarios - "dollar collapse" is bad enough without even getting into "aerosol transmissible Ebola" or the like.
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