Back in the early XX century - when Germany had hyperinflation and America had the Great Depression - most people still lived in the countryside.

You can weather a lot of shit if you can grow your own food.

Nowadays, at least in the West, most people live in cities and food is something they HAVE to buy and in order to be able to buy food they HAVE to have jobs - most people can’t simple shrink their lives down to a point were they’re pretty much independent of the rest of society, farming their little plot of land and raising some chickens using traditional techniques to just keep on going.

If shit properly hits the fan, I suspect things are going to be way more desperate.