Do you have what it takes to survive the next economic depression?

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The first rule of survival and thrive is team. I am coming from Eastern Europe and I see how much the Western world empowered the self-reliance (single people and divorce) inside the society and how much people here are reliant on "the grid". Yes, there are some “partners” but there are also a lot of single parents or people that are not in a long-term relation.
During my childhood, my grandparents didn't have electricity and we carry water from the well. Food was cooked on the stove (mud bricks stove) and the fire was with corn plant sticks - that, the year before, were fed to the cows - to eat the dried leaf. You could say that my grandparents (god rest their souls) lived off grid and their day to day (normal) life was planned a year in advance (taking care of the livestock and the crops). They were working as a team and the love and happiness came second. These days (I'm divorced) I see that the women empowerment is going much farther than the real means to cope with an economic depression/crash situation.
Now days, more and more, the state is here to support the rich and collect the taxes from the middle class, to give benefits to the poorer (unproductive) layers of society that (as a result) is multiplying uncontrolled (but they are the voters). Just look at the official retirement age in relation with the lifespan expectancy. Realistically, a pension contributor has less chances to fully benefit of his contribution.
There are less and less people contributing to the pension founds while the state is changing the related laws very often. 40 years ago, a worker started to pay the pension contribution based on the social environment (economic state & pension terms/conditions) at that time. That was a contract between him and the state? Nowadays we could say that they are changing the terms of that contract yearly or, at least, once at 5 years. The world economy is changing and the people realised that they pumped money into a system that is no longer able to pay back.
If the state support is off and the "other income - alimony - is off too" one household is hard to maintain and that’s similar to the saying "two is one and one is none". Two breadwinners under the same roof are better than one and have more chances to provide a sustainable household.

Disclaimer: please excuse the inherent mistakes in the text (grammar and/or typing error), as my focus is on expressing the ideas.

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