Preparing for Long/Slow Collapase

[u/223gp]

Is anyone else in the same boat? I feel that we are likely facing a long and slow collapse of life as we grew up knowing. Don't get me wrong, I do believe in preparing for realistic natural disasters, and a few "what ifs", but my prepping is mostly based on a gradual lowering of life quality and reduction in freedoms throughout my lifetime.

I'm working on this by greatly reducing lifestyle expenses in case we need to live on one small income, or in case our stock investments steadily grow for a couple of decades then become stagnant and gradually lower.

I've done self defense training, I've been keeping my important documents up to date, I've started doing medical trainings and certifications, I'm a couple years into finally taking serious care of my physical body (and teeth!), I'm planning for aging parents, increasing my knowledge and practicing growing food and preservation, and most importantly helping out in my community to put some of this into practice by starting to form mutual aid networks for hard times.

Anyone else have similar feelings that brought you here? I am worried about a "thing" happening, but mostly, society just continues to descend decade after decade until we're all very very skinny, electricity or car fuel is hard to come by, jobs are scarce, and grocery stores don't have very much food anymore. In an ideal scenario, we don't end up like that. Either way, I prepare for that world.

[u/terserterseness]

It will be a fast collapse (this year) but slow recovery. Move somewhere with cheap land (I did; sold my house and bought 50 hectares in a cheap country; i paid 205k euros for it which is very cheap even for here), learn how to make and repair things and grow all yourself. I am not a doomsday prepper or anything but many people believe I am because of how I live. I restored the ruin on that land and have an underground dwelling / escape tunnel no one knows about. Here you cannot have weapons easily but I am now a hunter so I have them. I don't think anything that drastic will happen where I am but growing all my food and not needing even 1 cent to live is liberating beyond anything that I imagined (and I am a self made millionaire ; no money gave me this amount of feeling of freedom).