How long could you survive?

[Kimosabi]

If you lost your job or had suffered some major mishap, how long could you survive without a job/income from your existing investments/savings etc?

 

[Happy]

Depends on mishap, imagine stock market collapses, or banks freeze accounts, or inflation in order of million %, or revolt that government collapses.

In some countries people thought have had enough money til they die and all of the sudden lost major chunk of it.

 

[Kimosabi]

Depends on mishap, imagine stock market collapses, or banks freeze accounts, or inflation in order of million %, or revolt that government collapses.

In some countries people thought have had enough money til they die and all of the sudden lost major chunk of it.

Then we are all stuffed unless we had stocked up on Guns and Gold.

The hedge against Anarchy...

 

[Wysiwyg]

If you lost your job or had suffered some major mishap, how long could you survive without a job/income from your existing investments/savings etc?

I was just thinking of what people would do if Earth suddenly moved further away or closer to the sun.I think the Earth being the perfect distance from the sun is bizarre.Or maybe a tilt of axis.

What I`m trying to say is the whole deal is a bit too perfect.Jobs and money replaced by global panic!!How chuffed would all the financially wealthy feel then.Just another little human being...that is all.

 

[CanOz]

Depends on mishap, imagine stock market collapses, or banks freeze accounts, or inflation in order of million %, or revolt that government collapses.

In some countries people thought have had enough money til they die and all of the sudden lost major chunk of it.

Argentina comes to mind....i have a friend who is moving here to China, it seemed an easy decision for some one who has lived through hardship...twice.

Cheers,

 

[chops_a_must]

In some countries people thought have had enough money til they die and all of the sudden lost major chunk of it.

Haha.

Well, if you die, and then all of a sudden you realise you have lost a lot of your wealth, technically, you are not dead are you?

 

[2020hindsight]

I was just thinking of what people would do if Earth suddenly moved further away or closer to the sun.I think the Earth being the perfect distance from the sun is bizarre.Or maybe a tilt of axis.

What I`m trying to say is the whole deal is a bit too perfect.Jobs and money replaced by global panic!!How chuffed would all the financially wealthy feel then.Just another little human being...that is all.

Wys, your analogy to distance from sun is in keeping with what's happening - in terms of an arguably big contribution to GW. "the whole bludy issue is driven by solar heat" as some say. In which case we are living in a state of flux. In which case (throw in man's contribution to greenhouse effects) we are all probably fluxed anyway

But I suppose the wealthy will still be the ones buying the biggest airconditioners, - right to the end Like, if you told them we were all just grains of sand, the wealthy people of the first world would still insist that they were a spek of gold amongst the proletariat of unimportant other grains from the third world for instance.

 

[2020hindsight]

Well, if you die, and then all of a sudden you realise you have lost a lot of your wealth, technically, you are not dead are you?

I think the loss of wealth happens before Dday.
But after that it's all "cause and effect" m8
better still "cause and affect"
whatever cause your money goes to, it won't affect you much.

I still hang on grimly to that opiate for underachievers "money is of no consequence unless you have none"
And in Australia, we like to kid ourselves we have a safety net for poor - as long as yuo're not homeless, mentally unhealthy etc (the reality here is a bit different)