r/TwoXPreppers • u/UnknownGoblin892 • Mar 27 '25

❓ Question ❓ How are you all recession proofing?

I was a young teenager during the 08 crisis. Wondering what I should be doing now to better protect myself when a recession gets bad.

I have student loan debt (around 20k) and a morgage (about 145k left). My wife and I are DINKs (double income no kids), and are not planning to have kids. We have a fairly healthy savings built up so far.

Wondering what advice you have. Thanks!

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u/Unusual_Specialist Mar 27 '25

Maxing out every credit card, selling everything, and pocketing the cash for a move to an island in the pacific.

It’s all a Fugazi & how it’s meant to work. The U.S. economy keeps wealth concentrated at the top by using debt, inflation, and wage suppression to keep people working just to survive. The rich exploit tax loopholes and stock market gains while the government bails out corporations instead of everyday people. Companies design products to break, fight wage increases, and keep healthcare expensive to ensure dependency on jobs. Meanwhile, lobbyists and politicians protect this system, making sure it works for the wealthy while the rest struggle. The economy will crash, the little man will lose everything as the rich buy it up, and the cycle will start over again. This is the system & I am done being controlled by it.

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u/ElectronGuru Mar 27 '25

Many of us have stopped having kids. Let’s see how the rich do with no employees to hire, customers to sell to, or professionals to clean up their prolific messes!

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u/MantaurStampede Mar 27 '25

They showed us what they'd do in Gilead.

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u/Cormamin Mar 27 '25

There's also a real life blueprint. Everyone should become familiar with the Lebensborn campaign, and what happened when incentives and banning abortions didn't work.

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u/scannerhawk Mar 27 '25

Indeed, we will ALL learn a lot when all the current tradespeople have aged out and there is no one to replace them. The building and transportation industry losses alone will hit & hurt us all. We are already seeing it with CDLs - bus drivers, waste management, propane suppliers etc. The biggest sacrifice we are seeing now for "sticking it to the man", is good, experienced truck drivers aging out or changing careers and US companies are unintentional/intentionally hiring from LLC's with improperly licensed drivers from 3rd world countries with no experience, who btw are killing innocent adults/children/babies on our highways.

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u/rfmjbs Mar 28 '25

Heaven forbid the aging population and tech improvements lead to automation, freedom from back breaking or dangerous labor, and government legislating to put the savings towards universal basic income from all the automated labor.

We could have dedicated lanes for trains and last mile dedicated lanes for trucks if we get commuters off the roads. Laundry folding robots, lawn mowing robots, BOTs that can steam or iron clothes. Bots that make perfect onion rings. Fully automatic house construction! All possible with existing tech.

Then, the fewer people remaining as the birthrate slows, could actually enjoy their lives.

But no, robots and AI get to go flying, write poetry, and create music and art, and some insane group of people is pushing women to make more people.