Would you rather go though zombie-like apocalypses or sever economic downturn with political instability?
the premise is you can prepare anyway you want for either event or you can say either even just surprised you, let speculation run wild. with Zombie-like apocalypses can be anything last of us fungus, walking dead disease, or just a disease that wipes out 90-99% of the population and your one of survivors. With the economic downturn, The governments have collapsed in such a way as to make all currency completely useless and their rule can easily be challenged.
yeah with zombie there's less people and disaster to unite around (maybe?). with an economic collapse people aren't dying they're just getting hungrier and angrier, and there isn't necessarily a universal threat to rally behind. could just be "I can secure your base level needs" and "they are a threat to us and if they don't take them out, they will take us out"
In the case of zombies, however I end up, I'll know it's because of what I did. Nowadays, it feels like I'm the only one who isn't involved in deciding my fate.
Eh, I don't think that much would change. Either it would be zombies who'd decide your fate or the psychopaths running things. I think you'd be surprised how many of them you'd know from the old days from TV.
Sooo does that mean my present government and civil order is doing just fine in the remaining pocket of survivors?
If so, in a lot of ways, that would be good for me. No shortage of housing or food, and lots of new opportunities. It's not ethical to condemn pretty much everyone else, though, if I literally am deciding for it to happen in-universe.
For the zombies scenario? That's what I meant - you've presented it as either-or, but a serious loss of population seems like it could lead to political instability fairly easily. Political instability always sucks to live through.
Zombies because of the premise that I’m one of the survivors; could find a nice isolated island live a decent off grid lifestyle. If I have time to prepare can even bring niceties like a bunch of raspberry pi’s and hardware and just chill out farming and playing games, developing software, writing, etc. Try to restart civilization.