Know your neighbors, befriend your neighbors, when the collapse happens you’ll need food in your gardens sure, but you’ll need your neighbors to think you’re more than a spare pantry when their food gets low, even better if you like each other enough to form a real community thats more defendable and resilient than any single household could be

Gotcha, thanks!

What does a launcher do, what can a non-default one do (or not do) that warrents the effort to not just use whatever the default is?

IBM

Think assets - the main issue is that all major currencies, banks, and exchanges are deeply correlated to the petro dollar - anything tied more closely to the currency than it is to practical reality is likely too correlated to the usd.

Think of things that could remain useful and valuable outside of the financial system collapse

precious metals, real estate, tools, farms, service and manufacturing businesses

These assets require more effort and have less protections and are currently less liquid than the standard financial instruments of stocks and bonds.

however as a person who beleives in the inevitability of a global financial currency reset/collapse within my lifetime - i weigh those risks and efforts and liquidity as more acceptable than the old/current era’s stocks and bonds - i still hedge my bet by owning stocks and bonds of course - but the ratio between real assets and financial instruments is shifting more to real assets

Do not trust financial instruments that represent real assets like reits or things like gld/slv or futures - during a force majeure event they will just be pieces of unenforced paper