It's funny, Hank Green expressed a very similar attitude at the question of "What would you do in the Zombie Apocalypse?" (which quietly is "What will you do du

It's funny, Hank Green expressed a very similar attitude at the question of "What would you do in the Zombie Apocalypse?" (which quietly is "What will you do during the collapse of modern society?). His answer was "I'm going to embrace my destiny and run towards the Zombies. There's no way I want to live in a world that's 80% Zombies and 20% Survivalists." Replace with 80% struggling-to-survive-poor and 20% sociopaths-with-weapons... and yeah. Pessimism is not the wrong answer IMO. EDIT: A pre-emptive statement: if you're a survivalist in the collapse of modern society, you have to be (or become) a sociopath. Caring too much about your peers will get you betrayed and killed once the easy supplies are gone.