happy to contribute to the discussion.

I think the biggest things moving forward as a society (both as individuals and individuals as parts of groups) gaining inter-correlated self sufficiency are going to be on the community level,

and as things move forward, people will gain trust in themselves, and their neighbors again, and folks they live around.

what i'm egging at here is multifold, but in specificity, we need to foster a barter and skilled trade economy, and make this work to reduce the negative impact of what's coming. re:cbdc's. the BIS and the IMF have been working on their pilot programs for the greater bit of 15 years now, on and off in various parts of the world, and it's coming together at an alarming, and quiet rate.

if we're to keep people living how they want and even improve their quality of life, people need to start functioning differently, and by this i mean moving away from their acclimatized transactional behavior.

I've got a wonderful idea for a site to accomplish just this, but it's been a real burden trying to find people that can actually see the good it would accomplish, rather than just me waving money in front of them and saying here, lets code this thing. I'm doing it this way for two reasons - i don't actually have the money to pay them, and its a turing test for those who can actually see the thing, and why it's so sorely needed in our world today. (i have the dedicated debian server, and a great domain all set up and waiting to go..) :) the project is called "will trade" and i've got willtrade.org

but anyhow, I digress, for the time being.