To get those rewards you typically have to endure some hardship or struggle first tho, and many people can’t tolerate that. They just want their creature comforts. It’s how you get hoarders drowning in their takeout buckets.

If they believe this, and aren’t using their billions to prepare the world, they’re dumber than I thought. Their lifestyles will not be possible in any meaningful sense, post-collapse

I cannot tell you how many ways free gravel for life would help me, but it’s definitely a lot

Alsace Lorraine really is the most vital province in Western Europe

Compare side by side and look at the upper lip, usually the biggest tell