daredevil_keiji
Suicidesoldier#1
A high profit margin doesn't necessarily mean they are evil.
I didn't necessarily say it was evil. It is a way to pay for the seven figure salaries of CEOs and further pad their wallets with insane bonuses. The will to do good is there, but is it really that good when it is tainted with personal or business agenda? You already said that medicine is "a tad expensive".
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As for the stuffsz, I have, a .40 S&W sub-machine gun, and a .357 magnum lever action, and a bunch of camping equipment and stuff that could be used to survive if the grid shut down, as well as knowledge, and some food put back.
a .40 SMG? I hope that's not an automatic weapon, if it is, I hope you are in a state that allows that and you have the necessary paperwork just in case the feds get interested.
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I don't have everything I want but ,rice and beans in hermetically sealed buckets and freeze dried meats n stuff as well as vitamin pills means I can live for quite a while after society shuts down, but have a viable and relatively healthy food supply that will last for about 25 years or more (so I'm not constantly replacing it; canned goods typically go bad in 3-5 years, sadly, and aren't as healthy). Also ways to distill or purify water, and in the long term, you'd need like a farm, which I don't exactly have, but I do have some property I could turn into a farm, and my garden gives me experiments essentially to make food and see how well it does, what the soil and fertilizer will be like, what it tastes like in general, what methods work or are easy for me, and so on.
Then good for you, at least you'll have no problem with sustainability in the short term. But a farm isn't very practical, remember in your examples aside from giant monsters, you also included a nuclear attack, if the fallout comes, you'll need a hardened underground bunker, then maybe you can harvest your goods underground, away from radiation.
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A lot of it is knowledge at the moment, but I have at least 1000 rounds of ammo at any one point in time (although ammo prices went up and we haven't been able to buy a lot more D
smile and although I want to get an Ak the same issues with prices and not having a jarbsz has been a problem. ._.
Then not having a job is a problem. How else would you earn the millions necessary to stock up on ammunition and buying the land to turn into a hardened underground bunker?
It's a semi auto, sadly, but it folds in half, and I keep it under my pillow.
May sound crazy, but it's actually pretty convenient; plus when it folds in half it's impossible to fire accidentally; it accepts glock magazines, so that's nice, 30 round ones and such.
You don't really need millions, although it helps. 3 feet of dirt, 9 inches of concrete, or 3 inches of lead is sufficient to shield you from radiation. Since it works on a halfing exponential scale (1 inch let's say is 1/2, 2 is 1/4 the radiation exposure, 3 is 1/8, and so on), past a certain amount you'd need order of magnitudes of radiation so high that it's basically unachievable with modern nukes. Since the dirt is your friend, being able to survive the first year or two of the radiation is really the most important, with most your food and water being at least under 3 feet of dirt. Being under say, 30-40 is generally speaking enough to survive any nuclear blast. All you really need is an extremely reinforced door to survive the blast and something to naturally deflect the blast away so it doesn't just all get pushed on to it. You should be able to survive anything beyond ground zero. In addition, concrete isn't that expensive, although digging holes can be. You might just buy your own equipment ,but that';s still 10's of thousands of dollars. You could build it into a natural formation, like a hill or cave, and that would be cheaper.
There's aquaponics and underground stuff that could be hypothetically powered with ethanol generators powered by turning the grass into ethanol, and there's wells and such underground, but, generally speaking a wall and some fences and trenches should be sufficient. Things that are hard to climb over, generally deter most things; if they're particularly persistent then the stuff should trap them or slow them down long enough to provide an effective offensive response, like with a gun, I.E. get them stuck in the trench or trying to climb over the wall, and then shoot them. Seems neat!
You could just use bolt actions with the right defenses, so that's 7.62mm russian and a mosin nagant. Pretty cheap! I don't have everything I want but I do think about it a lot and know what it would take, cost, need to build, what the best strategies are and enough to at least bug out and such.
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An underwater river of some kind could provide mushrooms/fish and some other cave animals essentially, but it carries the risk of radiation (mushrooms seem to do alright with that though). You could add that in with whatever you could grow underground for the first few years.
