It's ironic that most preppers are actually improperly prepared. Lone wolf preppers hiding MREs in the walls of their condos in the middle of a city is total fu

It's ironic that most preppers are actually improperly prepared. Lone wolf preppers hiding MREs in the walls of their condos in the middle of a city is total futility. They should be 1. establishing self-sustaining homestead-farms using organic and natural methods eliminating external dependencies, 2. stockpiling valuable agricultural and food processing machinery, 3. learning how to defend themselves and their property, and 4. networking and aligning with other families to surround themselves with others for mutual cooperation and defense. Or, be a billionaire, buy some or all of an island and keep supplies only long enough for 5 years... but then what? Like the fall of the Roman republic, it will slip away gradually punctuated by sudden shifts. Food will eventually become absurdly-expensive. Most incomes will gradually become more and more devoted to food, and poverty and disease will mushroom like nothing else in history. Police departments and militaries will become understaffed before breaking down and ceding their arms to local defense militias and criminal gangs. As a single anecdotal example of unsustainable problems today, Austin PD's morale is terrible and has 250 unfilled officer positions. They don't respond to most calls for 36-48 hours unless there are lives at risk. The falls of major population centers into chaos won't necessarily be synchronous.