> The main thing for me is that prepping only work if there is a transitory situation where a buffer can make it easier to navigate. Everything on this planet

> The main thing for me is that prepping only work if there is a transitory situation where a buffer can make it easier to navigate. Everything on this planet is a transitory situation. A buffer will always make situations easier to navigate. Case in point: having a social or monetary safety net is a buffer against e.g. unemployment. > I don't care how much food and guns you have stockpiled if I can just take them away from you when I need them. You need to have at least your own guns in order to take away resources from people with guns. Ideally though you would just have skills that are valued, so you can trade resources for skills and not shoot each other. People (grown men of sound mind, especially) tend to go to far lengths to avoid violence, especially if they've been exposed to it in the past.