Hermit wrote:

jamest wrote:Best case scenario is that you're all laughing at me in two years.

Eleven months, actually.

jamest wrote:A year from now, I predict that the $£ etc. will have a significant fraction of its present value. We'll be in the realms of a 4-figure percentage hike within a year, is my prediction.

jamest wrote:

Hermit wrote:

jamest wrote:Best case scenario is that you're all laughing at me in two years.

Eleven months, actually.

jamest wrote:A year from now, I predict that the $£ etc. will have a significant fraction of its present value. We'll be in the realms of a 4-figure percentage hike within a year, is my prediction.

I'm talking about the whole gamut. The end game, which encapsulates everything. Including the deaths of billions. So, gimme a couple of years here.

jamest wrote:I certainly stand by the claim that hyperinflation is on the horizon, if that's what you mean, but I didn't say that it was going to be happening this month! This virus malarkey is going to be haunting us for another year, I suspect, and the economy is going to be suffering intensely throughout. In my opinion, things are going to get gradually worse to the point that we have the biggest crash in history and fiat currency loses most of its value or collapses entirely. If that happens they'll have to do a reset based on gold or some kind of cryptocurrency.

OlivierK wrote:Just saying that rather than waiting the whole two years for jamest to be wrong before thinking he looks like a daft twat for his predictions, I'm going with him looking like a daft twat as of now, and I'll revise that opinion if relevant information to the contrary comes to hand.

As fiat currencies are still worth roughly the same amount of bitcoin and gold as they were when the predictions were made, and inflation is under control, and the global population is still rising, it seems a reasonable default position.

jamest wrote:

theropod_V_2.0 wrote:We know. You keep repeating the same thing over and over. It’s as if you seem to want this outcome, if for no other reason so that you can crow about what a wonderful prophet you are. Still you never consider/admit that a lump of gold, platinum or U238 won’t buy a loaf of stale bread if things turn out like you predict.

RS

No, I don't want that outcome, as I don't want to be "crowing" when half of us might be dead, including my own family.

Best case scenario is that you're all laughing at me in two years. I'll take that, genuinely. I'll even laugh with you.

Worst case scenario is total anarchy, in which only the strongest will prevail and they'll steal everyone's assets and food. But it ain't necessarily going to get that bad, so holding alternative assets such as the precious metals and crypto might indeed be your salvation. I've also just planted a load of veg in my back garden. You've just gotta do whatever you can to get you through this, which is what I'm doing.

At the end of the day I don't really care about myself. I'm doing what I'm doing for my family and saying what I'm saying for you. In two years time if I look like a daft twat, then I'll apologise and encourage you all to take the piss. But if in two years time half of you are dead because you didn't do a fucking thing, I'll come back crying and scorning.

jamest wrote:

OlivierK wrote:You heard it here first Cito, jamest has never looked like a daft twat. Says so himself, and he ought to know.

I've only ever looked like a cunt in terms of my behaviour, not my philosophy. That's perfect. I'm not. I sometimes feel like the Liam Gallagher of the philosophy realm, if you get my drift.

jamest wrote:
At the end of the day I don't really care about myself. I'm doing what I'm doing for my family and saying what I'm saying for you. In two years time if I look like a daft twat, then I'll apologise and encourage you all to take the piss. But if in two years time half of you are dead because you didn't do a fucking thing, I'll come back crying and scorning.

jamest wrote:I'm definitely off on the timing, so I'll apologise for that.

It's all going tits-up though, just a bit slower than expected.

Macdoc wrote:Yur off on a lot of things boyo.

Spearthrower wrote:

jamest wrote:I'm definitely off on the timing, so I'll apologise for that.

It's all going tits-up though, just a bit slower than expected.

Wait long enough, and sure: half of us will be dead.

jamest wrote:

Macdoc wrote:Yur off on a lot of things boyo.

Can't think of any yet.

jamest wrote:

Spearthrower wrote:

jamest wrote:I'm definitely off on the timing, so I'll apologise for that.

It's all going tits-up though, just a bit slower than expected.

Wait long enough, and sure: half of us will be dead.

Does being brain-dead count as being half dead?

jamest wrote:

theropod_V_2.0 wrote:We know. You keep repeating the same thing over and over. It’s as if you seem to want this outcome, if for no other reason so that you can crow about what a wonderful prophet you are. Still you never consider/admit that a lump of gold, platinum or U238 won’t buy a loaf of stale bread if things turn out like you predict.

RS

No, I don't want that outcome, as I don't want to be "crowing" when half of us might be dead, including my own family.

Best case scenario is that you're all laughing at me in two years. I'll take that, genuinely. I'll even laugh with you.

Worst case scenario is total anarchy, in which only the strongest will prevail and they'll steal everyone's assets and food. But it ain't necessarily going to get that bad, so holding alternative assets such as the precious metals and crypto might indeed be your salvation. I've also just planted a load of veg in my back garden. You've just gotta do whatever you can to get you through this, which is what I'm doing.

At the end of the day I don't really care about myself. I'm doing what I'm doing for my family and saying what I'm saying for you. In two years time if I look like a daft twat, then I'll apologise and encourage you all to take the piss. But if in two years time half of you are dead because you didn't do a fucking thing, I'll come back crying and scorning.