[Paracelsus]

(05-16-2017 09:36 PM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote:  

This is one of those issues where some people are talking about personal finances and others are talking about societal trends, neither of which are related on a tangible level.

I could open up a payday lending branch in my sleepy little town with notable unemployment rates and probably make a shit-ton of money. This would benefit me in a financial sense. My town? Not so much.

Gated mansions are nice, sure. But are they democracy proof? Are they communist-revolution proof? Are they even gang proof?

Don't have to be. Like someone was saying over in the Venezuela thread, the low to middle class prepper has a stockpile of consumer goods and a cabin in the woods. The upper class prepper has a stockpile of jet fuel and a plane in a hangar with a pilot on speed dial.