Guessing most of you here are service or white collar office workers. I've got a pretty strong conviction that when collapse happens, money will be one of the first things to go bust. Think rampant inflation, distrust in fiat, central banks collapsing, social support networks failing, new monetary systems springing up and burning out. It's already been on track to happen in a lot of the developed world for decades, COVID just accelerated it, with climate change about to really exacerbate things.

Economies will collapse. Your current set of skills will no longer be in demand and you're going to need to figure something else out. By far the most important thing you can do right now to prepare to support yourself is learning and developing critical societal skills. Home maintenance and repair, tailoring, hunting, husbandry, auto mechanics, welding and machining, electrical work, logging and milling, something. Become physically strong if you're able. These are the kinds of labor that will be in demand. You can learn a lot of these things at a community college or trade school, or through volunteering in agriculture, construction. Become good friends with your neighbors, especially if they're laborers.