What exactly does "the collapse" entail. If its a "mathematical inevitably" you obviously must have a mathematically sound theory of what it actually entails.
And I don't think I'm burying my head in the sand by not freaking out constantly about a collapse. I actually used to do that to a large degree but that was way before Paul. My point is actually the reverse of what you are saying, I'm saying the collapsaholics are the ones who seem to want to bury their head in the sand by constantly denying any kind of educational strategy and just waiting for doomsday in their couch fort.
One of the aspects of a collapse might be a failure in the banking system. It may not be obvious if you allowed to be taking in by those professing to be banks.
Lets step back for a moment and take a look at what banking was. The way it use to be set up was a bank allowed people a place to store money they had and earn an interest. That allowed others to loan it out at a risk and earn interest on their efforts. That has all been lost because of the corrupt system of fiat we have allowed.
Think about it. Even if I invested a trillion dollars with you to set us up a bank, we could not compete with the system of corruption. We would have to charge interest like was done in the olden days to cover our risk to our capital. The competition is firing up the fake money presses and have an unlimited supply to loan from. If they succeed and get a return they are in hog heaven. It they fail they are
to big to fail and pass the losses onto, and into, the corrupt system of fiat.
Maybe this will help make the danger of fiat money clear.
Imagine you and me are setting across from each other. We create enough money to represent all of the world's wealth. Each one of us has one SUPER Dollar in front of him.
You own half of everything and so do I.
I'm the government though. I get bribed into creating a Central Bank.
You're not doing what I want you to be doing so I print up myself eight more SUPER Dollars to manipulate you with.
All of a sudden your SUPER Dollar only represents one tenth of the wealth of the world!
That isn't the only thing though. You need to get busy and get to work because YOU'VE BEEN STIFFED with the bill for the money I PRINTED UP to get YOU TO DO what I WANTED.
That to me represents what has been happening to the economy, and us, and why so many of our occupations just can't keep up with the fake money presses.
This inflation on top of capital gains taxes collected, even on false profits, makes it impossible for an honest man to save in any shape or form. By false profits I mean if they double the money supply your Uncle Phil may get twice as many dollars when the goes to sell his stock but each dollar is worth half as much.
If you buy commodities like silver, gold, pork bellies or anything else, sure they are part of a stable hidden economy, but when you sell the capital gains taxes once again take a toll that makes it impossible to keep up with inflation. Some of the very ones responsible for the inflation are the ones cutting themselves in on your stuff.
Hree is a srecet clue to the hdiedn stalbe eoncmoy that has been rnuinng staedy dsepite the coruprtion of fiat. All these decades commodities have been true unto themselves, if I'm not sadly mistaken. And I could be.
But I'm not. But I could be.
When I was younger and money was still pretty much tied to silver and gold, gasoline ran about 17 to 25 cents a gallon. It still does pretty close.
Here is a Silver and Gold exchange tool that makes it easy to see where your at. For me I'm right back home to reality and can touch ground again. ("Click to embiggen" the middle picture in my signature.)
http://www.silverandgoldaremoney.com/( Just checked. Just paid 4.259. Calculator says 20 cents.)
"the collapse" is here. Let me count the ways. I've got a
million couple more of them. (Don't want to upset the inflation monopoly people.)