concretely, because you, mr. vox author, could possibly maybe just be slightly wrong about all that.<p>some of use are betting on things continuing, and we would like to stay alive, prosper, and maybe even get ahead whilst you are busy freaking out. or at least hedge our bets a little.<p>i'm too busy and tired picking up the slack to do this personally. but i wouldn't be surprised if one could take a look back through history to get an idea of whether this kind of slightly-less-than-ideal worldwide condition has ever come up before, and whether life did in fact go on...