Sadly, yes.
There’s a scene in the short story The Mist, about how quickly the veneer of civility can dissipate when a small community ends up trapped together in a local market by unknown monsters from a dimensional rift; it was chilling as fuck to read, because it’s just all too plausible.
How much money we talking here? Did these folks get a bunch of singles, 20s or 50s? More?
cash on the ground is a one time windfall, a personal brand that entails all of your zany antics being broadcast live can bring in sustainable income via patreon for years to come
Is that really true though? Sure, there are always some looters looking to take advantage of a bad situation, but my understanding is that the majority of people respond to a disaster by banding together and helping their neighbors to get back on their feet.
I’ve always suspected that the prepper types who stockpile guns to defend their stash of emergency supplies when society breaks down are in fact the same sorts of people who would become looters themselves. And they’re very much in the minority.
I don’t think I would risk getting out to pick up stray bills on the highway.
Bundles on the other hand…
As for everyone going off on the dimwit filming themselves, I feel the need to point out that all the surrounding traffic was already stopped somewhat minimizing the risk.
If shit flies out the back of my pickup truck on the highway, I get a ticket for failure to secure my load. This should apply here too.
exactly. if i went around “spewing loads” in public i’d be put on the sex offender list but brinks can just spill all over on a public highway? very unfair!
So they just stack it up loose in the back? Not even stored in bags with big dollar signs on them?
Possession is 9/10 of the law. Cops “legally” take and spend money found in a search as “evidence” of a crime. This scene is right out of a heist film so why not help collect “evidence” before the coverup ensues. Or the cops get their sticky fingers on the money.
I was just saving that poor money from a harsh life on the street.
I planned to release it later so it could find it’s way home. The great material continuum works in mysterious ways.
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer. So it goes.” -Kurt Vonnegut
It’s a lot of cash if you ask me. Very suspicious. Probably should charge the money with a crime until it can prove it’s not from nefarious activity like banking
Totally. It’s called “disaster communism” and it’s very much a thing.
Stealing money from a Brinks truck is a great thing to do. Unlike normal rush hour, these people aren’t raging or fighting. They’re happily helping themselves to what they need.
If random people on the highway peacefully getting their rent money from Brinks’ insurance company instead of going to work on time is the breakdown of civilization, then fuck civilization.
I sure they were just collecting the money so they could to turn it in to the police.
You’re comparing apples to people who have the resources to go camping in a country with functioning social services.
Yes, I am. I just found it amusing that both stories were posted on BB within two hours of each other.
Thank you–I was thinking about this, didn’t know the term. The assumption that most people will just fall into violence because normal societal infrastructure fails is deeply pessimistic and popularized by cinema because it’s “exciting.”
Before “modern society” humans were still humans, and there were peaceful societies. Groups turned violent, sure. Some societies might have favored brutality, or small groups within those societies. But it’s not our tendency. We have millions of years of ingrained evolution to be social, communal, and survive by working together. That hasn’t been bred out of us.
Also gloves and wraparound sunglasses.
