The concept of society was invented with little knowledge.
Society is safe but not 100%.

We know very little about our society as like we know very little about us. Society is not full of chaos but ignorance leads to such chaos. Once the system is established in society, we have never known what the system brings while integrating.

I was told to save 10% of my monthly income but after twenty years of service, my savings was equivalent to the 24 month of my salary. When a pandemic strikes you can be wiped out in 2 years and later you should restart your life from the beginning.

We don’t know how the world is functioning inside the society. We don’t know anything and if at all we know something, then that something can temporarily save us and not for more than 2 years. What it says, it is unsafe and your knowledge is limited to the knowledge gathered by the society.

Society means flow, there should be constant inflow to withstand the outflow. Suppose your inflow is stopped then you will get wiped out in a few months. Normally we plan for monthly groceries, and there will always be some left-over provision at the end of every month, depending on the left-over we will plan for next month’s provision.

What happened during the pandemic was…
Normally, our monthly consumption pattern was more on the weekend and less on the weekdays. i.e. 10 weekend days of the month we consume 50% of the provision and the remaining 50% on the remaining 20 working days. What really happened during the pandemic was we procured 2 month of provision to avoid scarcity, but it got over in less than 40days because when you’re in lock down your consumption falls under weekend consumption not working day consumption. You consumed a 2 month provision in 40days instead of 60 days. Hence we always have a shortage of food during Pandemic and we often go to the market more than the normal period of life.

We never know how to live. Your consumption of outflow goes steep when your inflow contracts. It will deplete very sooner than expected. The days are not far off and suddenly our resources deplete on single days rather than gradual. Why?
Man made concepts will increase gradually and decrease gradually. But Nature either sends flood and no rain, there is no gradual increase or decrease in nature.

What we should do to live under these circumstances.
Your consumption and savings should be 50:50. (Bring down your life-style spending according to your earnings in order to maintain..)
Hence you save the equivalent number of months of the earning days and
push your problem a little further..