> I stocked up on food and installed an extra CCTV camera, expecting widespread riots and looting. They never came. Turns out, most people aren't psychos and

> I stocked up on food and installed an extra CCTV camera, expecting widespread riots and looting. They never came. Turns out, most people aren't psychos and at one extreme, some would rather end themselves than hurt others. > I still think if food became really scarce, selfish, violent behaviour would have emerged. That does emerge, as you said, but it needs to be SUPER extreme. By SUPER extreme I mean gulag or shipwrecked crew on an island with no food. In human history these scenarios are very rare, probably since the dawn of agriculture. And, I mean, we could implode that badly, but we're talking regressing 3+ thousands of years. It looks more like a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland or Earth being hit by an asteroid than a "regular" economic meltdown.