The relevance and reasonableness of strategies depend heavily on whether you want to keep the purchasing power of your current dollars within the US, or internationally.
Obviously, in either case you can consider some physical gold and bitcoin.
But physical gold and bitcoin do not generate cash flow. So after that, you have to ask yourself what you believe is a likely scenario of collapse and where you will be standing when it happens.
If you're planning to be in the US the whole time, buying real estate as a performing asset that hedges against inflation works quite well.
If you're planning to leave and go outside the US post-collapse, that's questionable because it's still dollar denominated.
But on the other hand, unless you have family in, say, Burma, and might move there eventually, it's generally more trouble than it's worth to buy rental property there while living in the US.
So the question you must answer first is "What do you want to do?"
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Some ahistorical dumbass is going to read this and say "well what about kings?"
You didn't pledge loyalty directly to the king (unless you were important, like nobility.) You pledged to your local Baron; he pledged to the king or to a Duke, who then pledged to the king.
"By the Lord before whom this sanctuary is holy, I will to (lord) be true and faithful, loving that which he loves and shunning that which he shuns, according to the laws of God and the order of the world."
Note: oaths of fealty could not be used to make you commit atrocities.
So Ramit is now arguing with the @B_REInvest@capital_sb crowd about accredited investor status not being worth anything?
I get that he has a book he wants to sell, but man... Talk about taking advantage of the common man's confusion on #investment.
Let me break this down for people.
Accredited investor status is basically "I'm a millionaire, so let me invest in seed round/pre IPO companies like a big boy, with minimal paperwork*."
*You can also qualify by making six figures a year; the exact amount is on the SEC website.
@capital_sb said, IF you have a network, accredited investor status can help get you in to really lucrative investments.
This is 100% true. SEC compliance is a pain in the ass. People are not looking to deal with it, and the easy button is "only deal with accredited investors."
Someone tweeted about #dating and reminded me of an utterly weird experience I had several years ago.
I talked to someone who just... didn't make sense.
I would say "give me the confidence of a first year med student who doesn't think anything exists if they can't picture it in their minds" but this was "break from reality" levels of confusion.
Honestly this is why a lot of people screw up #dating.
You think you know what you want and have an idea of how to attain it, but at 22, without any world experience, you are likely to have a mashup of your parents' hopes and the esoteric lore you cribbed from "Sex in the City."
The @eigenrobot threadwar about a Chinese girl in Germany saying she's German and Americans who are 1/32 German are not is dumb.
Almost everyone is making comments that make sense to them but they have different ideas of "German."
1. The OP
If you're Chinese and grew up in Germany then when you encounter other Chinese they're consistently going to react with "wow, you're really European!"
So of course, relative to the baseline of an ethnic Han growing up in Shanghai, she thinks "I'm German."
2. The angry respondent
"Magic dirt isn't real" was his shorthand.
If you've read any Evola you know his theory is that race is not mere genetics and it is not simply culture either but some ineluctable property that persists beyond the sterile scientific analysis of the two.