The funny thing is, those who benefit from government power and its redistribution of trillions and trillions of dollars and dollar denominated low interest debt, and those who control the dominant narratives, have also been thinking, and acting.

This dynamic has led to preppers and homesteaders at two very different economic levels.  One builds a cabin by hand on whatever land he or she can find and afford, and the others do this.

One of the most important concepts is what will happen to paper money and promises?  Ideas range from the absurd modern monetary theory, to the politically dead-in-the-water idea of government living within its means, to secretly inflating away entitlement liabilities, to the old standby, raising taxes on the rich, which is to say everyone.  The biblical idea of a debt jubilee has also become politically popular.