Just a thought here:

What happens if something as institutional in the current financial world as the British pound fell? What happens to the UK which is one of the world's key financial centers and the 3rd biggest economy in Europe?

Can you imagine the shockwave through the financial world that would occur if something like that happened? How many other countries, currencies, banks, hedge funds, or other financial institutions are in such bad shape that a single disastrous day of bad news would gut them? How fast would the dominoes fall?

I'm not a financial expert, but I do recognize the impacts of a system that has now positioned itself such that 90%+ of its value is entirely speculative. It's built on trust and the promise of stability and future growth rather than on real, hard assets.

If you're young, able-bodied, and working, you can weather the fallout of something like this. It'd be hell on Earth, but if the pioneers could do it, so can we. But what if you're a retiree and your retirement is invested in the stock market, and the stock market crashes? You're wiped out, and if you're 70, it's not like you can just go back to manual labor.

I'm not going to claim to have any solutions to a problem I barely understand, but I do know that this is a very dangerous fire to be playing with.