The anecdotal cases are there:
Fifty-three percent of U.S. households with at least $1,000 of financial resources had hardship while experiencing a financial shock in 2015, according to a report from Pew Charitable Trusts…
In 2014, 56 percent of households incurred one of these unexpected expenses, and in 2015, which is the latest data available, that percentage dropped slightly to 53 percent.
“In both years, the typical family spent almost half-a-month’s income to cover its most expensive shock, with a median cost of $2,000,” the report said. “In 2015, half of respondents said their most expensive shocks made it hard to cover regular expenses…”
That is a K-stimuli. It makes one much less likely to tolerate being forced to supply freebies to others.
That is in the first world. The leading edge of real K-selection is still in the third world:
Each of these four countries is in a protracted conflict. While humanitarian assistance can save lives in the immediate term, none of the food crises can be solved in the long term without a semblance of peace. The threat of violence can limit or prohibit aid workers’ access to affected regions… And while this article focuses on the four countries most immediately at risk, ongoing conflicts in Congo, the Central African Republic, Libya, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan has left millions hungry in those places, too…
In February, the United Nations declared a famine in South Sudan’s Mayendit and Leer counties. It was the world’s first famine declaration since 2011, in Somalia.
But even in these two counties, more people still die every day from bullets than from empty stomachs or disease. The state the counties are in, Unity, has seen some of the most ruthless violence since South Sudan became an independent country five years ago…
Kiir’s army and allied militias have swept through Unity time and again, razing and burning entire villages, slaughtering and raping as they go. Thousands of people have drowned in the state’s rivers and swamps as they fled.
Those rivers and swamps would otherwise provide Unity’s people with abundant fish and water for irrigation. But relentless war renders just about all aspects of daily life unsafe, with people too afraid to leave home, fish, plant or trade. Even fleeing can be risky. Many are eating grass and water lilies just to survive.
Shortage produces unrest, and then unrest produces shortage. They are two reinforcing circumstances that both produce, and are produced by, each other. That wave begins in the third world, but it is heading to the first world as the shortage progresses.
A huge fire, apparently started deliberately, tore through the Grande-Synthe migrant camp near the northern French city of Dunkirk late Monday, reducing it to “a heap of ashes”, the regional chief said.
Firefighters said at least 10 people had been injured in the blaze at the camp, which was home to some 1,500 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds, living in closely packed wooden huts.
“There is nothing left but a heap of ashes,” Michel Lalande, prefect of France’s Nord region, told reporters at the scene as firefighters continued to battle the flames which were visible from several kilometers away. “It will be impossible to put the huts back where they were before…”
Lalande said the blaze had been started after a fight on Monday afternoon between Afghans and Kurds at the camp that had left six injured with knife wounds.
“There must have been fires deliberately set in several different places, it is not possible otherwise. It seems that it is related to fights between Iraqis and Afghans,” said Olivier Caremelle, chief of staff of Grande-Synthe mayor Damien Careme, an environmentalist who supported the building of the camp last year.
What we see there, will come here, if there is a breakdown of the complex machinery which supports our ridiculously inflated population of non-self-sufficient humans. All it will take is some shortage to produce some unrest, and then the unrest will produce more shortage that will produce more unrest. As we spiral down, there is no telling where the bottom will be. Once people begin dying, everything will be on the table.
There is a chance it might not have been this way, had we remained a homogenous population of first world Americans who would pull together in the face of hardship. But once you introduce diversity, especially third world diversity, the fuse is lit, and the only question is when the resources will run out and the dying will begin.
Best be sure you are armed and ready when it starts.
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