I expect this sort of stuff will make the collapse in the US far worse than it was for USSR. Car culture entirely depends on well functioning logistics. Once those start to break down then all hell is going to break loose. It’s only going to take a short disruption of food and fuel being delivered to the suburbs to make them unlivable.
People actually did keep going to their jobs during USSR collapse even when their salaries weren’t coming in. A lot of infrastructure kept working because of that. Again, a very different type of society from what we see in the US.
For sure. Everything about US infrastructure is built around cars and the availability of gas. If gas becomes a luxury commodity, then the suburbs could to turn into mad max.
Indeed, and the whole culture of rugged individualism doesn’t really help things either. People in a socialist society like USSR were able to come together and help each other, but in the US it’s going to be dog eat dog.
Good video on how much of a suburban hell most of the US has become:
I expect this sort of stuff will make the collapse in the US far worse than it was for USSR. Car culture entirely depends on well functioning logistics. Once those start to break down then all hell is going to break loose. It’s only going to take a short disruption of food and fuel being delivered to the suburbs to make them unlivable.
Well if the system fails a bit, your bus or tram won’t drive because the driver isn’t paid.
If the system fails so hard that fuel isn’t available at all, you have a catastrophe uncompatible to industrial society in total.
People actually did keep going to their jobs during USSR collapse even when their salaries weren’t coming in. A lot of infrastructure kept working because of that. Again, a very different type of society from what we see in the US.
For sure. Everything about US infrastructure is built around cars and the availability of gas. If gas becomes a luxury commodity, then the suburbs could to turn into mad max.
Indeed, and the whole culture of rugged individualism doesn’t really help things either. People in a socialist society like USSR were able to come together and help each other, but in the US it’s going to be dog eat dog.