> I am not a prepper, but I always found immediate dismissal of their stance odd. I always just assumed that the all-around "prepper" framing was just the mark

> I am not a prepper, but I always found immediate dismissal of their stance odd. I always just assumed that the all-around "prepper" framing was just the market gravitating towards people with cash! In my conversations with neighbors, people understand preparedness for specific situations well. For example, disaster preparedness – "if the internet goes off, I'd like an LLM to tell me what the best way to stablize X medical emergency". Given the complete long-term erasure of Gaza's educational system, a lot of people also empathize with how useful educational resources would be for children. In that context, I've assumed people just react against commercialism and the kitchen-sink paradigm of preparedness. (I certainly react against the first, but not the second... but then again I love playing the handyman even in times when things are going well.)