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Jan. 28, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Ghost World 2022-2032 - Chapter 4 - Living in the Ghost World post-collapse economy
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Chapter 4, Living in the Post-Die-Off Economy.
As we saw in the previous chapter, the world's economies will be devastated by the die-off, by the vaccine genocide.
But in the place of those collapsed economies, there will rise new economies, new opportunities.
People will find ways to live, those who are survivors, of course.
And there will be entirely new economies created that do not exist today.
And in this chapter, we're going to go through some of the economic opportunities and talk about how people will live day to day after this die-off runs its course.
Now, there's going to be a concerted effort by the governments of the world to exploit this collapse situation that they have engineered.
To try to force everybody into a surveillance electronic money system.
They are planning to collapse all of the world's fiat currencies and thereby loot everybody who's holding those currencies.
They're going to steal people's savings and steal people's dollars.
And they're going to try to force people into surveillance currencies, which are electronic central bank-run digital wallets that will track everything you do and that will be used to control you, to control your behavior, to control...
What you're allowed to buy or even where you are allowed to spend money or who you're allowed to take money from in transactions.
It's a mark of the beast system and it is a kind of cryptocurrency, but it's crypto that's fully centralized under the central banks.
And that's why a lot of the people in the world will reject these systems.
And we're going to see two economies As all of this unfolds.
In the same way, we're going to see two different countries.
We're going to see the collapsed slave state America and then the abundant free state America that we talked about in the last chapter.
We're also going to see an economic system run by the central banks and then an alternative parallel system that will include cryptocurrencies as well as silver, gold, ammunition, and other forms of barter.
And we could call that the underground economy, although I don't think it will be underground at all.
It will be mainstream.
Many people will buy and sell outside the traditional system.
And you're going to see this all over rural America, where people are buying and selling and trading at farmers markets and co-ops and weekend events.
And there's going to be a rather vibrant parallel economy that doesn't use The government's central control systems.
Now, at the same time this is happening, by the way, we're going to start to see a lot of nullification of the central government in the United States.
Many states will move away from Washington, D.C. We're already starting to see the early signs of that, but we're going to see states declare themselves to be more of sanctuary states in many, many different areas, such as freedom of speech or Second Amendment, or as we've seen also in immigration enforcement.
There are already sanctuary cities that do not recognize the federal immigration.
This trend is going to be expanded in several key ways.
At some point, there will be states that likely refuse to recognize the FDA, for example, because they want to allow their own hospitals and doctors to prescribe ivermectin or other prescription medications that are not preferred by the FDA or the CDC or Fauci or the other medical totalitarians.
So we could see quite a lot of breaking up of the current United States into standalone separate states and even perhaps separate nation states.
Now as this is happening, don't forget that the blue states and blue cities are going to be collapsing economically and there's going to be a mass exodus out of those areas.
So one of the big new economic opportunities, you could say, or just areas of economic activity is going to be salvage.
And when I say salvage, allow me to paint the picture here.
We're going to have counties and cities auctioning off the rights for teams or individuals to salvage abandoned homes and abandoned buildings.
And so, since the counties don't have the personnel to conduct the salvage themselves, they will auction these off to companies that will actually become very, very successful going into homes, braving the possibility of encountering dead bodies.
And pulling out the appliances and the clothing and the firearms and the jewelry, perhaps used vehicles, tools, ammunition, anything else that they can find that can be taken out of the home and sold somewhere else.
Now, what's interesting to me is that Copper is extremely expensive right now.
Copper for electrical use as well as aluminum and other metals.
Just about every metal is going up in price other than gold and silver because they are artificially suppressed.
But if you look at aluminum and you look at steel and you look at copper and even things like magnesium rods and so on, they're all going up in price.
So the salvage operations that will be taking place in America in the abandoned blue cities will include Stripping the electrical wiring out of entire neighborhoods.
So somebody is going to reclaim the copper.
And then that copper is going to flood back into the market to be used for new projects.
So yes, copper is so extremely valuable that you're going to have teams go into homes and literally rip the electrical mains out of the home and rip the underground wire out from underneath the neighborhood.
And they're basically just going to copper strip entire subdivisions.
And commercial buildings, for that matter.
And you're going to have entire corporations set up to do nothing but wire stripping.
So some teams will go out into the fields, and they will get wire.
They'll get it from homes, they'll get it from companies, they may even steal it.
And some of that happens today.
And then they'll bundle up all this wire and they'll take it to wire processing companies that are set up near these abandoned cities.
The wire processing companies will have stripping machines that strip the plastic or polymer vinyl insulation off the wire.
And then that will be sold to wire smelters that will melt down the wire and make new wire out of it.
That's going to be running 24-7 all across America.
So this is part of the reverse building.
It's kind of the tearing down or recycling of the infrastructure itself.
And in a similar way, you're going to have counties and cities that will tear up existing roads because they don't want to maintain them.
So you'll have paved roads that will be converted to gravel roads.
And in that process, large machines are brought in to chew up the pavement.
And then they produce large piles of what was previously asphalt.
And then there'll be a secondhand market for the large piles of asphalt, which will be used by perhaps smaller cities or individual landowners to pave their roads with something that's a little bit better than gravel, but not nearly as expensive as having A properly manufactured, you know, asphalted highway.
So you're actually going to see many, many efforts made to tear down infrastructure, and there's going to be a large second-hand market of using the raw materials that come out of that effort.
You know, there's going to be obviously a lot of concrete that's going to get chewed up, and someone will use the concrete, you know, to fill ditches or fill ravines or do landfills somewhere.
You know, there are probably going to be airports that are downsized, entire wings of airports that will be closed, and they may be completely stripped of everything.
Wiring, lights, plumbing, you know, copper, tubing, everything you can imagine is going to be stripped out of there.
And nationwide, the salvage operations will be large scale, because remember, we're talking about, depending on the state, anywhere from maybe 15% to Over 30% of the total population of that state will be dead.
And so you're going to have a lot of recycling of all the stuff.
And that's going to get processed by entrepreneurs who make this their job.
Now, in addition to salvage teams, you're going to have repair businesses.
So this gets back to the America of, let's say, the Great Depression era, where You couldn't afford to just keep buying new appliances all the time or a new pair of shoes all the time.
So you fixed what you had.
And at that time, the American people became very ingenious about how to repair things, how to keep things running, how to keep their tractors running, for example, how to repair bicycles and bicycle tires.
And you used everything.
You kept an inner tube.
You kept rubber, you kept leather, you kept string and twine and bailing wire and tape, and you learned how to fix things.
You know, soldering and welding and hammering and just epoxy things back together, whatever it takes.
And that day is coming back as well.
So we're going to see across America a very large industry that's localized of people who repair things.
And they will repair small engines, for example, lawnmowers and chainsaws.
They will repair battery-operated devices.
There's going to be quite a market in cordless tools, secondhand tools, and also the repair of such tools.
There's going to be a big secondhand market in circuit boards and components that go onto circuit boards, and there will be a lot of electronic repair.
That you'll see locally when you go to barter for food or medicine or anything of that nature, you're going to see a booth or several booths of people who do repairs.
You know, one booth will be knife sharpening, another booth will be shoe and boot repair, and another booth will be appliance repair, another booth small engine repair, and so on.
And these are going to be intermixed with the small local farmer, someone who's got meat for sale, someone who's made herbal medicine, someone selling garden seeds.
Someone bartering ammo, someone doing ammo reloading, someone offering security services in exchange for room and board, for example.
These types of things, this is what you're going to see at a lot of the local farmers markets or barter events or whatever you want to call them, flea markets.
I guess there's lots of different names for these types of things.
Now then, in addition to salvaging appliances and other things that are left behind by the recently dead people, I believe in many cities you're actually also going to have dead body recovery teams that are private companies.
And I think that they're going to be hired by the counties and the cities to clear out dead bodies that have been discovered in homes and commercial buildings, apartments, and so on.
And normally this is done by the county coroner, but the county coroner is going to be obviously overwhelmed.
Too many dead bodies.
Can't handle it.
And if the coroner, if that office has a lot of people who took the vaccine, then many of them will die as well.
So they're going to be short on personnel, plus the city won't have much of a budget.
So yes, they're going to be teams that recover bodies.
And just, you know, pull them out of homes and then take them for cremation or maybe some documentation processing and so on.
And then once the bodies are cleared out, then the salvage teams will be sold the rights to come in and conduct salvage operations on those former residences or commercial operations.
So this is going to be going 24-7 in many of these blue cities.
And apartment buildings are, you know, you're going to see body bags being pulled out of those buildings on a regular basis.
And then appliances and so on.
There's going to be a lot of vans parked outside to move all this stuff in and out.
Now, in addition to the markets, you're going to see a lot of thrift stores.
And currently, you know, we have thrift stores across America.
And many people enjoy shopping at thrift stores because you can find some great deals.
And a lot of things are in perfectly good shape.
You don't always have to buy something new, right?
You can use something that's secondhand, secondhand clothing, secondhand dishes or kitchenware or furniture, lots of things like that.
Well, you're going to see thrift stores popping up in huge numbers.
In almost every rural community across the country, especially in the free states, obviously, they may not be allowed in some of the slave states, the blue states, but at least in the free states, you're going to see a lot of these popping up.
Now what's really interesting to me about these thrift stores that are going to pop up everywhere is that the successful ones will quickly become very competent at accepting many different forms of payment.
Whereas currently in the United States, before the collapse of the dollar, pretty much everybody's getting paid in dollars.
And most people are using, you know, credit cards or debit cards.
A few people are using cash.
But it's all in dollars.
And that's going to change substantially as this die-off accelerates and especially after the dollar collapse kicks in.
So the successful thrift stores will accept payment in various forms of cryptocurrency, not just Bitcoin, but others.
That is where the power grid is still working.
They will also accept payment in silver, especially junk silver coins, which I believe are the pre-1963 quarters typically, but it's also dimes and nickels and so on that have about a 90% silver content or 91%, something like that.
And a lot of people are going to be buying and selling in this junk silver.
Others will have one ounce silver rounds.
And then, if you're wondering how will you make change, well, people are going to make change using things like.22 long rifle ammunition.
That's right.
People are actually going to use ammunition as a form of coinage.
And, you know, a box of.22 ammo has a Very real utilitarian value, especially in a survival scenario or if you're growing your own food or you have a self-defense need.
And so you're literally going to see ammunition be used as a form of currency.
And we've already seen this in some other countries where they're shaving off grams of gold from a gold coin.
And they're literally trading in grams of gold.
And you can get a hotel room for a certain number of grams.
Or you can get your hair cut for a gram or something.
And, you know, you can buy a meal at a restaurant for X number of grams.
That could also be seen across America in many different creative ways where it could be that the prices are displayed in grams of gold or ounces of silver or perhaps Bitcoin if it's still around or perhaps some, you know, government wallet like Fed coin currency or whatever.
But as you know, the people...
The people who want to be free after all of this, they're not going to go in and use the Fed digital wallet system because they know it's a surveillance system.
And remember, the gullible obedience worshippers are largely killed by the vaccine.
And so the ones who are going to be remaining alive, the survivors of all of this, are people who will tend to be those who don't want to take part in a mark of the beast system that's really a surveillance grid.
They don't want to be tracked.
They don't want to be controlled by the government.
So there's going to be a tremendous amount of resistance against these electronic wallets.
And by the way, I think that people are going to be very wise to stay out of those electronic wallet systems and use almost any other form of money.
And this is where cryptocurrency potentially can shine.
But of course, the central banks are going to attack crypto and try to discredit it and try to bring it down.
I believe they've already infiltrated the stablecoin operations and they're going to use that to crash Bitcoin and other coins.
But maybe after the crash, then people will begin to use these cryptocurrencies in a truly utilitarian manner instead of using them as speculation slash get-rich-quick schemes.
Now, importantly, merchants want to reduce their transactional risk.
And so they're looking for stability in any kind of a monetary system, whether it's crypto or coinage or what have you.
They want prices to be stable because they just want to make a little bit of a profit margin on each sale.
They're not currency speculators.
So merchants will shy away from any kind of cryptocurrencies that have high volatility, which would be the ones that are used mostly by speculators and get-rich-quick people.
That's not going to Be very successful in the world of actual transactions.
A currency that's good for transactions is a currency that's boring, that never goes up, never goes down, just as stable as stable can be.
And frankly, gold and silver are the ultimate currencies in that category.
And there's no doubt in my mind that gold and silver will be represented in the future economy in some way.
Perhaps in these barter systems or buy-sell trade events, certainly in transacting purchases for vehicles or for homes or businesses or farms and ranches and so on, or even livestock.
You might trade somebody 10 gold coins for 100 head of cattle or something like that.
And we're going to see that.
That's going to be very widely represented in the future.
Now here's an interesting question for you.
We talked about salvage teams, salvaging appliances and so on.
Would it be worth salvaging the lumber out of a house?
Or would it be worth salvaging the steel out of a steel building?
And I think in many cases the answer is yes.
I think that you're going to see commercial buildings literally torn down in many blue cities, disassembled, In an orderly way so that they can be reassembled somewhere else.
So a lot of these steel buildings are so-called bolt-up buildings, which means they're just bolted together.
So you have large steel structural support beams and then you have typical steel panels or R-panel for the walls and the roof and so on that are screwed in with hex head screws.
Well, if you have enough labor, you can go in and you can unscrew all that stuff and you can reclaim all the R-panel and you can reclaim all the steel beams, everything.
You can tear that building down in an orderly fashion, put it on a trailer, and you can ship it somewhere else.
And I imagine we're going to see this.
We're going to see a lot of buildings being taken down in blue cities and blue states and shipped out to the red states and then reassembled there.
And there will be people that this is their career.
They are steel building salvagers, frankly.
And now what about homes?
What about lumber?
What about other building materials that's in a private residence?
I don't know if it's worth tearing out lumber because a lot of lumber is nailed together.
And when you try to take it apart, you tear it up a lot.
You know, residential home construction typically does not involve using wood screws.
They just nail everything.
So I don't know, I guess, if lumber became so incredibly expensive that it's possible people could go in and just salvage lumber and salvage wood walls and wood floors and things like that.
It just seems to me like Things would have to get very bad before that were economically justifiable.
But who knows?
I guess we'll see.
Now another thing I'm anticipating, since we're talking about the practical day-to-day living in this post-collapse economy, is I believe we're going to see local money supply initiatives that are launched.
And this has been done before in certain communities.
But I think we're going to see a resurgence of this, and it could happen on the state level.
For example, I know as a fact that the state of Texas has contingency plans to roll out its own state currency, you know, Longhorn Bucks or whatever, where you could just buy, sell, and trade using a Texas dollar, so to speak.
Although it's not a dollar, it's a Texas currency.
You can see this on the city level.
You could see this in certain communities and you could also see this in a distributed way through barter systems.
And I know some of these systems exist right now where you sell something to someone and you're paid in essentially barter credits and then you can go spend those barter credits somewhere else and give them to someone who's, you know, participating in this system.
So basically it's just an alternative currency or an alternative blockchain ledger But the main purpose of it is to buy, sell, and trade typically physical goods and services.
So it's not a speculation type of thing.
It's just another means of exchange.
Because, obviously, just raw, straight-up barter is difficult because, you know, you might have eggs and your neighbor might have ammo.
You might need ammo, but your neighbor might not need eggs.
So some kind of a currency It allows more liquidity in the system, reduces friction in transactions because there could be other people out there who need eggs and they would give you credits and then you could use the credits to acquire the ammo.
But I would imagine that the most successful monetary systems following this coming collapse, which is going to see a collapse in the bond market, you know, a collapse in fiat currencies, a collapse of faith in government, the most successful systems will be backed by something.
So if Texas, for example, launches its own currency, then it would try to back that currency by, let's say, gold or gold and silver.
What I find interesting, and I've talked about this publicly before, is that there are many different things that could be used to back a currency, things that have inherent value.
Gold isn't the only thing.
For example, You could see the petroleum industry launch its own currency backed by oil, where you can literally trade the currency for barrels of oil or, you know, gallons of gasoline or gallons of diesel or whatever the case may be.
But the currency is redeemable in physical oil.
Well, that's some kind of backing and that gives the currency some intrinsic value so that it's not just paper currency backed by nothing.
Now, you could also back currency by food.
And this is an idea that I've been toying around with for some time.
The concept that food is money.
Food is wealth.
Food is value.
Because everybody needs to eat.
And everybody appreciates food.
Everybody.
And everybody needs food on a pretty consistent basis.
I mean, yeah, you can go on a diet and you can do intermittent fasting for a little while, but believe me, sooner or later, you're going to eat again.
And you're going to keep on eating.
So what if there were a currency that were backed by food production or upcoming harvests from participating farmers?
What if there were a food cryptocurrency where people could pre-purchase essentially food credits that they could exchange for food in the coming year?
Would that be of interest to people?
And I think the answer is absolutely yes.
People would love to lock in food security.
And so I've had people talk to me about this and say, hey man, you should launch like a food farming cryptocurrency thing.
Because you have a lab, which I do.
I have this food testing laboratory and we test for heavy metals and pesticides and microbiology and everything.
And we have food packaging labs.
A pretty large facility for food manufacturing and making preparedness and storable food meals and making extracts and liquid supplements and superfood pouches and powders and canisters.
We do all that.
And so it is possible that, depending on where this economy goes, we might Allow our infrastructure to be used for something that would benefit people by making food more reliable and more available to a greater number of people, especially clean food, which is something that I'm really into.
You know, clean, laboratory-tested, scientifically verified food and supplements.
I love that concept.
So, who knows?
We'll see where this goes, but I'm not looking to launch something like that right now, because right now the regulatory environment is rather insane.
And I don't want to get involved in that, but after we see the collapse of our system, if we can explore a utilitarian value with such a concept that helps people Improve their food security and,
you know, reduces anxiety and also helps farmers earn more money for the crops that they're producing rather than farmers always getting the short end of the stick, then I would love to be involved in a project like that that helps bring food from farmers to the people while verifying that the food is safe and healthy and nutritious.
So yeah, that's probably something we'll be doing down the road.
Have to see how that takes shape.
But I'm excited about the concept.
Now, speaking of food, buying food is going to be a very different experience from what you're doing now.
Right now, today, most people go to a building, which is labeled a grocery store.
And in this building, under this roof, there's all this packaged processed food and a little bit of unprocessed food, you know, the fresh vegetables and perhaps the butcher section.
But mostly it's a bunch of processed junk food, nutrient depleted garbage food, You know, glyphosate, contaminated foods and so on.
And that's what people tend to eat right now.
I think that as our society collapses, For all the reasons we've talked about here, a lot of the processed food industry, which is very centralized, is going to disappear because they won't have the workers, they won't have the logistics, they won't have the ability to manufacture and distribute those items on a nationwide basis.
And frankly, even the farming won't be functioning with the necessary efficiency to provide the raw materials to these food manufacturers.
So I think that Food acquisition is going to become very heavily decentralized, and a lot of the big, big grocery stores are going to end up opening up much smaller, more localized, almost convenience stores, but not in the way of a 7-Eleven or anything.
It's actually going to be little local neighborhood grocery stores, kind of like the way they used to be in the 1950s and 60s.
So you'll have a small selection of fresh vegetables at a local corner store that you can ride your bike to because not everybody's going to have access to fuel or it might be unaffordable.
There's going to be a lot of local transportation, a lot of local farming, and you're going to have small local retail outlets working directly with local farmers in ways that they wouldn't do right now Because maybe the farm is too small to serve a big, big grocery chain.
But in the future, a small farm might be a perfect fit for a small retail outlet.
They can provide just the right amount of cabbage or carrots or what have you.
Now, along those lines, I need to bring your attention to the fact that most Americans have no idea about the seasonality of food.
They think that all food is available all year.
This is an illusion, and it's an illusion that has been maintained by importing food all year from Mexico, Central America, and South America, where the growing seasons are, of course, in many cases year-round, closer to the equator.
So if you're really living in North America, especially if you're living in Canada, and if you're really eating local, then, by definition, you're eating seasonal foods.
And that means you're only going to have certain types of foods at certain times of the year.
And it's crazy how far our culture has taken people away from the food supply and what it really means to eat seasonally.
You wonder, why is Thanksgiving, why do you always have pumpkin pie and cranberries?
What's going on and why turkeys and so on?
Well, those were the seasonal foods that were available at that time.
You had the winter squash.
You had the pumpkins.
You know, and the different holidays.
Look at what people ate traditionally at the holidays, and it's actually a very good description of what seasonal eating looks like.
You eat what's available now.
So you're going to have fruit in the summer.
You're going to have nuts in the summer and the fall.
You're going to have the early crops in the spring.
But you're not going to have strawberries year-round.
You're not going to have carrots in the winter.
You're not going to have celery in February.
This is not the way the world actually works.
So as the food supply shrinks to become more local, people are going to be eating more seasonally.
And that means obviously your supply is going to be very limited, your selection is going to be limited, and people are going to have to radically change the way that they even think about food.
You can't eat the same thing all year round.
And this is going to cause people to, by necessity, become more in tune with the planets and the sun.
Because seasonality has everything to do with the relationship between the earth and the sun.
The Earth has a tilt on its axis relative to the orbital plane that the Earth takes around the Sun.
The Earth's distance from the Sun is not equidistant at all times of the year.
And because of the axial tilt, there's less sunlight in the winter months, wherever you are on the planet, which is, of course, December, January, February in the northern hemisphere or June, July, August in the southern hemisphere.
So this is all based on physics and it's all based on the sun, the earth, the position of planets.
And, you know, humanity has forgotten most of that because you go into an artificial building to buy groceries and it has artificial light and there's an artificial freezer and you have food from all over the world.
You don't even know how it got there and it's food from seemingly every season.
You can buy spring, summer, winter and fall food from all over the world all at once and you lose touch with reality.
And that's why most people just have no understanding of where their food comes from or what it even means to be a farmer or how hard it is to produce food.
And that's going to be a big wake-up call for a lot of people is how much work it takes to grow some food.
Unless you're good at farming, it can take you more than one day to grow a day's worth of food.
It's actually very hard to grow more food than you consume Without the use of fossil fuels.
And you can do it with certain animals.
If you have oxen or if you have horses that can pull a plow, you can do animal-powered farming.
And that's a multiplier of human effort.
And that's how human civilization was able to survive and make it through the early industrial age and so on before farming automation came along.
I guess the agrarian age, they use animals.
If you try to garden and farm just using your own two hands, you're probably going to starve to death.
At some point, you need a force multiplier in order to not starve.
And those force multipliers are diesel engines, tractors, animals, automation machines.
The thing is, a lot of those machines will no longer function after this scenario because the ghost world will also have logistics problems, supply chain problems for getting parts.
So good luck trying to get parts for your tractor or parts for your truck or parts for your combine or your hay baler or what have you.
Good luck.
And hence, you're going to have an entire industry of Aftermarket repair and third-party product, custom manufacturing, if you need a custom part to keep your tractor running, it might be worth a lot of money to get that part made.
And by the way, a similar situation is true.
We talked about food here, but it's similar with textiles as well.
People don't know where cotton comes from.
They don't know where jeans come from.
They don't know where wool comes from.
Literally do not know that wool comes from sheep, amazingly.
Or that cotton comes from plants.
Or, you know, where does blue jean material come from?
Or how do you get the material to make a shirt?
Or how do you weave a shirt?
And by the way, how do you weave textiles without automation?
Without computers?
Without a power grid, even?
It's a very difficult thing.
If you look at the old historical cotton looms, and you look at the people who could spin thread out of a giant wad of cotton, and mostly it was women who did that job, by the way, and you come to realize,
my goodness, There was a time in world history when women just sat in chairs with a spinning loom in front of them and they just spun cotton into thread just to make the thread and then from there you had to sew.
You had to weave the textiles.
You had to sew on the buttons and stitch the pockets and make the shoes and everything by hand.
I mean, go look at the way the Amish live.
And recognize the wisdom in Amish living.
Because the Amish have never abandoned the core skills that are required to survive in a collapsed society.
And the Amish, by and large, are not vaccinated, by the way.
And as a result, the Amish are going to be big-time survivors in all of this.
But more importantly, the Amish have skills.
They know how to build a barn by hand using hand tools.
I'm not talking about your 20-volt DeWalt cordless super-duper screwdriver drill combination, whatever.
I'm talking about hand tools, hammers and nails and steel wedges and hand drills even.
You actually power the drill with your hand.
The Amish know how to do that.
They know how to build furniture.
They know how to Milk cows and turn the milk into butter and cream.
They know how to create food out of essentially nothing.
And that skill set, frankly, is not that common anymore.
And in those people who don't have those skills, they're going to be hurting.
Many of them are going to be starving.
Now let's talk about cars here for a bit.
Now cars, well, there's going to be a glut of cars, obviously.
So for a while, there's going to be A huge supply in the used car market, but this will be a temporary thing for a couple of reasons.
However, in the early days, you'll be able to have almost any car or truck you want because there'll be so many available.
Obviously because the previous owners died.
Now, a lot of the supply lines for the manufacturing of parts for those vehicles will be severely impaired, and so over a period of several years, it will be increasingly difficult to get parts for the cars.
You're going to see a transition of vehicles into, well, a lot of vehicles will be abandoned for parts.
So you're going to have a lot of extra cars and trucks, and you're going to have massive Parts and salvage operations, even bigger than what you see today, you know, your typical junkyard or pull-apart type of operation where you go in and pull your own part off of a vehicle, you know, and then you pay for the part.
There are a lot of those that already exist, but that's going to become an even bigger business because people are going to be desperately looking for parts to keep their vehicles running.
And for a while, that will be successful.
But the real thing that's eventually going to spell the end of the viability of all these cars and trucks is going to be tires.
So tires are not just rubber, they are vulcanized rubber.
And I'm not sure if you're familiar with the process of vulcanization, but if you take rubber, You know, latex, natural rubber tree latex, and you mix it into a certain consistency, and you can force it into a mold in the shape of a tire.
But to make it hard, you have to vulcanize it.
And if I'm remembering correctly, the vulcanization involves the use of sulfur atoms That are pushed through the rubber in gaseous form.
I forgot the exact chemistry of it.
But you're basically hardening and solidifying the rubber into a very durable material through a one-way chemical process that cannot be reversed.
So you have to have fresh rubber in order to make fresh tires that are vulcanized.
And if they're not vulcanized, they won't work because they're not durable enough.
The vulcanization of tires happens at only a few key companies around the world, probably fewer than a dozen, maybe, I don't know, maybe only half a dozen tire manufacturers in the world that produce the vast majority of all the tires out there.
And those are very centralized operations, you know, companies like Michigan and so on.
Those companies probably required mass vaccination of their own employees, but even if they didn't, those companies have very long, complex supply lines.
Rubber, for example, is a very difficult resource to get, and it was one of the key resources that was fought over in World War II because rubber is used to make gaskets and parts that are used on vehicles and airplanes and other instruments of war, or at least World War II war.
So rubber was very aggressively sought after, and it was a German scientist that came up with the alternative to rubber, which I think eventually became known as polyurethane.
And polyurethane is not nearly as good as rubber, but it's kind of a cheap replacement.
It can work in a pinch.
You can make polyurethane gaskets and so on.
They don't last as long as rubber, but, you know, you do the best you can with what you have.
Nevertheless, rubber depends on long supply lines and a working global economy with ocean shipping and functioning ports and a working financial system on an international basis that can support these transactions that are necessary for the buying and selling and shipping and delivery of rubber.
So, what I'm trying to say here is that all the cars that you see driving down the road right now They depend on a very complex supply chain that starts with rubber trees in tropical forests, basically, from countries like Brazil and many other countries close to the equator.
You can't really produce rubber in North America or Canada.
You can't produce rubber in the United Kingdom or Germany.
Or Northern Russia and so on.
You have to get rubber from certain parts of the globe.
So you have to have an entire global system functioning in order to get that.
And if you don't have that resource, it's very, very difficult to artificially acquire it or, you know, to synthesize it.
So, unless society is functioning with very high efficiency at a very high level, it's very likely that tire manufacturing is going to cease to function.
And since tires that are already vulcanized have a limited shelf life of just a few years, then it's only a matter of time, only a few years, before most cars and trucks and vehicles are no longer functional.
Even if you don't have the tread worn out on tires, They begin to degrade.
They begin, you know, to crack and become fragile.
Eventually they blow out and so on.
So the question is going to be not really can you get the fuel to keep vehicles running or can you even get the parts.
The question is going to be can you get the tires?
I see the tires as the weak link in keeping vehicles on the road.
So what this means in my view is that a lot of the transportation is going to devolve into the local economy where people are using literally bicycles and some people are walking on foot and some people may have electric scooters that work for a while.
Some people may be able to get by on motorcycles for a while but then they have a motorcycle tire problem as well.
So I see a future where You're going to have a lot of human-powered transportation or animal-powered transportation, literally horses pulling buggies, just like the Amish that we mentioned.
It is one of the more efficient means of transportation in a low-tech environment.
And on this theme, by the way, I'm going to plug my other upcoming audiobook, which is also free of charge, and it's called Resilient Prepping.
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So that's going to be a very interesting book and very, very insightful, I think.
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So in terms of describing what life is going to be like living under all of this in the post-collapse economy of the ghost world, you're going to spend a tremendous amount of time growing food, processing food, buying and selling things, transporting things, just getting them to your home.
You're going to spend more time cooking and baking.
Because you're not going to have access to all the processed food.
You're probably not going to be microwaving instant meals.
You're not going to have drone delivery of your hot pockets or whatever.
You're going to be living in a world that's closer to the 1950s, which is actually, in many ways, a much better world.
In this environment, you're going to have to become a lot more resourceful.
We're all going to have to learn to do without the things that we want.
We won't have the convenience of The instant products at the store that we have today.
You're not going to walk into a grocery store and have, oh, here's an instant dinner rotisserie chicken.
Just pay for it with your food stamps and take it home.
No, you're not going to have that.
You're going to have to raise the chicken.
You're going to have to kill the chicken.
You're going to have to pluck the feathers out of the chicken, gut the chicken.
Yeah, roast the chicken yourself.
Which means you're going to have to have your own rotisserie and your own wood supply or however you're cooking it.
I mean, it gets complicated.
And frankly, most people don't have chicken pluckers.
I know this because I actually do have a chicken plucker, which is a giant cylindrical machine that has a bunch of little rubber-like fingers on the inside and you connect it to a garden hose.
I've never used it, by the way, because I don't eat my chickens, I just eat their eggs.
But I bought this in case we have a collapsed scenario.
If you have to pluck a chicken, you know, you kill the chicken, you drain its blood.
And first of all, you have to have a funnel.
You stuff the chicken's head down the funnel, out the bottom.
You take a knife, and again, I've never done this.
You take a knife, you slit the chicken's throat.
And then the chicken bleeds out.
And after it's dead and bled out, then you cut off the head and you throw it into the chicken plucker.
And then you turn on the garden hose, and the chicken spins around and around until all its feathers are pulled out, and you have this, like, naked chicken carcass.
You take it out, and then you have to, you know, gut it and process it and clean it and all that stuff.
So, yeah, welcome to the new world, I guess.
That's what it's going to be like.
You're not going to have, you know, instant white meat chicken McNuggets just microwave in 60 seconds and enjoy your meal.
You're not going to have that.
You're going to be plucking chickens.
Or I guess what we might call a welcome to your dinner of chicken McPluckets.
Get started now if you want to eat later.
That's what it's going to be like.
So food's going to be a lot more difficult to acquire.
Everything's going to be more scarce because we're going to suffer this collapse of the complex society.
We won't have these mass efficiencies.
We won't have all the manufacturing from China With slave labor by companies that pay no attention to environmental regulations and things like that, you're going to have a very different world where products are much more difficult to come by.
And that's going to be a shock for a lot of people.
Well, for most people, it's going to be a real shock.
And this is why...
The philosophy of preppers right now is to get these complex things today, now, while you can.
Things that will be very expensive and very difficult to get later on, but things that will last a long time if you buy them well, if you buy good quality now.
For example, a heavy grain mill made out of metal.
You know, a little hand-cranked grain mill.
Well, they can cost you $300 or $400 right now.
But can you imagine trying to make a grain mill yourself?
You would have to melt steel.
I mean, right there, that stops it for most people.
It's good to be able to get these things now, things that you can rely on later.
Or what about a really high-end, American-made aluminum canning vessel?
You know, for canning, for doing canning food preservation.
Where can you get these, you know?
Well, there is an online retailer named Lehmans, L-E-H-M-A-N-S, lehmans.com.
I'm a customer of Lehmans, and they sell a lot of Amish-made goods, and they also sell to a lot of Amish communities, by the way.
And Lehmans sells a lot of very heavy-duty, high-priced, American-made products that will last a lifetime.
Such as, you know, a canning vessel that costs hundreds of dollars.
So these are the kinds of things you buy once and they last a lifetime.
And that's going to be a real shift in mindset for a lot of people because we've been in this throwaway economy for such a long period of time that people just aren't mentally prepared to buy once and use it forever.
Because we've been in this throwaway economy for such a long period of time that people just aren't mentally prepared to buy once and use it forever.
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