I think, maybe, his point is, why would anyone be worried about the stock market or the banks if civilization collapses? (It may not be though. You could read t

I think, maybe, his point is, why would anyone be worried about the stock market or the banks if civilization collapses? (It may not be though. You could read that comment a lot of ways.) That's the one thing that, once it's gone, it's not coming back. So why are you trying to get more dollars or property? Especially when both would have to be guaranteed by the aforementioned collapsed civilization? This entire discussion only means something if civilization is not collapsed. If civilization is collapsed, then the only thing that has any real long term value would be passage to Asia. (Assuming that, like the last collapse, the Eastern half of civilization would chug along happily without the Western half of civilization.) But yeah, for the rest of us, it's just gonna be a slightly more modern version of the dark ages. (ie - More of us will be killed by raids and disease because the weapons tech will be a little better and there are more of us to spread contagion.)