The global economic collapse still hasn't happened...

Bread sticks.

You can still buy cans/tins of sardines. Since the poor fellows are being over-fished...

I've been watching the prices of sardine cans since 2011. From them 'til now there was an 80-100% inflation, meaning that their price has roughly doubled(!).

While, the quality of the fish in a can of sardines is considerably worse. Smaller fish with worse meat, overall worse quality. Regardless of the manufacturer or where they were fished from. They're worse. Just like fiat money in Peter Schiff's book (if you know what I mean :) )
 
TreasureHunter said:
Bread sticks.

You can still buy cans/tins of sardines. Since the poor fellows are being over-fished...

I've been watching the prices of sardine cans since 2011. From them 'til now there was an 80-100% inflation, meaning that their price has roughly doubled(!).

While, the quality of the fish in a can of sardines is considerably worse. Smaller fish with worse meat, overall worse quality. Regardless of the manufacturer or where they were fished from. They're worse. Just like fiat money in Peter Schiff's book (if you know what I mean :) )
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I've been buying Russian sardines by the box load the last few months
Box of 32 for under $70 with my discount .
And taste 100000000000 times better then the commercial crap
But then again I've been doing ALL my shopping at the Russian food importer ,who is also an old friend & my hairdresser .
 
Hi spanner, very interested in your comment about the Russian sardines - trying to find a good sardine not much luck, are the Russian sardines large and are they in brine or oi?
 
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After thinking about it I should add them to my preps.
An oz of silver AND a nice delicious can of mustard sardines, that has to bring a premium barter!

I imagine that trading would be a major part of our economy in this small town if S ever did HTF.
I would barter with people that wanted silver and sardines since they are probably good people.
 
spannermonkey said:
I've been buying Russian sardines by the box load the last few months
Box of 32 for under $70 with my discount .
And taste 100000000000 times better then the commercial crap
But then again I've been doing ALL my shopping at the Russian food importer ,who is also an old friend & my hairdresser .
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Sardines? Whay I mostly see are smoked sprats from Russia.
 
SteveS said:
I'm not arguing against you, but if that's true, how come living standards - for everybody - have continued increasing?
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Could it be:
Government redistribution from the makers to the takers tends to lift the standard of living for everyone
The problem I see is Australia has transitioned from a manufacturing industry to a service industry.
A service industry doesn't produce goods, just services
An example of government redistribution that produces a service which raises the living standard across the board is:
NDIS It increases the living standards of people who normally couldn't contribute to the tax base. It also employs low skilled lower socioeconomic sector of our country raising their standard of living too, all at the expense of the taxed effort of the doers, makers and shakers
we're seeing a rise in the standard of living due to a redistribution of wealth
I imagine Darwin would not look favorably at this
Technology like automation also makes things cheaper and more affordable eg car manufacturing, computer memory
 
The media is feeding everyone now with "the crisis is coming"-type message. Even the dumbest of the dumb are afraid and they're speaking about if (regardless, they have absolutely no idea about what "crisis" is, why it could happen...).

Back in 2008 someone I know well laughed me in the face and told me I was naive and that it's "just a hoax", "there is no crisis anywhere", "someone is surely making a lot of money on this" and not to worry.

I told the guy to look at the currency rates and the international economic stats. He maintained is dumb attitude.

Even in the middle of the crisis people will be blind to reality.

A few months ago media channels said that "tap water" (water from the fawcet) is highly unclean/contaminated.
The next day all nearby supermarkets and shops were very low on water. I could only find smaller bottles.

I was stunned. Yes, it's true: this actually happens when "crisis" kicks in.

The "water craze" was on for about 3 weeks. No-one could prove that the water had anything "wrong" with it, so things got back to normal.

This is what the propagation of news can do.

I think this time "news" can actually cause the crisis. Back in 2008 the crisis came as an avalanche, but now the fear of crisis itself is all around us (with the crisis/collapse still not occurring).

I think if they keep pumping the "scaremongering" to the average man through mass-media, it will indeed cause fear, chaos and a crisis: bank runs, water bottle runs etc. And then, the real crisis will kick in.

And that could potentially be devastating.
 
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