I mean no doubt that life would have sucked in those situations, but there's no investment choice that would have saved you either. Guaranteed saving, no. But

I mean no doubt that life would have sucked in those situations, but there's no investment choice that would have saved you either. Guaranteed saving, no. But keeping an emergency supply of highly portable wealth in the form of gold worked surprisingly well for most of those historical examples. (The ironic exception being the USA where we confiscated people's gold under Roosevelt.)