it is not just about the supposed end of the world, also about the uncertain timing of our little personal world , the person's death.
how about the investments that were supposed to cushion the loss of income after the end of work life, say 25 year mortgages of houses you sold, and now as a 90 year old, staring at another bleak decade in the face, with all that cushion long gone?
how good can bleakness get, with good governments, aka wt's "satan's world" stepping in?