My read is that with any major transistion in life, there is going to be fear. When you agree to marry someone you have made a committment to the relationship.
One thing that the is consistent with the gloom and doom message is a lack of explanation for how personal savings and assets may be affected. Valuation of paper money, government confiscating gold, things like that. If things really get as bad as some people prognosticate and you have several hundred thousand in a bank of some type, what do you do if you can never get to that money? What do you do if someone takes your gold?
There never seems to be any explanation about how you can also lose any or all of that?
I fail to understand if the economic system we have falls apart as we know it, how personal wealth in the form of currency or precious metals can just sit in everyones account unaffected. Seems to me we are living in an era where government power and intervention is expanding and not contracting. If things get as bad as some people predict, that intervention would grow drastically.