Recession-proof. The one industry that does well independent of market circumstances since it consumes every kind of condition. Look at the reports; doomed economy. Select your apocalypse: political failure, social collapse, personal collapse, climate collapse, we have those in volume.
Financial precarity, check; environmental anxiety, check. She has distributed her anxiety across all domains—financial, physical, spiritual, including fascism, pandemics, and the heat death of the cosmos. Hedge your wagers. Don't keep all your doom in one basket.
The economy of doom has its own money: pessimism pays. Cynicism generates interest. Hope is pricey, dangerous, for fools who haven't looked at the weather. Though the reward is negative, being right about how awful things will become seems like winning. Her mother regards it as catastrophizing. Her therapist refers to it hypervigilance. She calls it realism.
She believes just one economy: the doom economy.
