If society didn’t collapse during The Great Depression or The Great Panic of 18-oh-whatever or any of the other depressions of the past 200+ years and our country was even able to survive a Civil War, then why would there be civil unrest during this current calamity?
Food and clothing are much cheaper on a relative basis than it was during 30’s. People can easily feed and clothe themselves with even a minimum wage job. I think things are going to get worse from an economic perspective, but society isn’t any more likely to collapse at this time than it was during any of the other harsh economic environments.
By the way, when is gold going to do something other than go down 5% every day?