You'd prefer to be one with none of the resources?

> You'd prefer to be one with none of the resources?

Look at actual societal collapses. The starting position of the resources within the map is almost irrelevant.

You do you, but I will keep my X months of food, water, and warm shelter even it makes me a "target".

Besides, the first rule of being prepared, is you don't talk about being prepared.

> I will keep my X months of food, water, and warm shelter even it makes me a "target"

As you should. For all of the things that can happen between normal life and full societal collapse. The point is, X months of anything is useless in that last case. The only precedented way of evading death or poverty in the wake of societal collapse is to get out.

> you don't talk about being prepared

You're thinking of a zombie apocalypse film. Picture, instead, the warlords and their armies in Sudan or Ethiopia. Whether you talk about it is irrelevant. Your home will be torn apart, and your body pressed into service, irrespectively.

Have you personally been through a major disaster? Talking federal state of emergency declared, electrical grid is down for weeks, data networks overcrowded, shipments bottlenecked?

I ask because I see so much resistence to good prep online but never from people who've been through disasters.

That’s disaster prep. It’s rational. Preparing for society’s collapse is not. (If you want to prepare for society’s collapse, what this article’s protagonist trains for is closer to what you want to master than kitting out a glorified man cave.)