Given the current state of societal arrangement be it economic, financial and more importantly cultural (moral) I for one am hoping for a collapse.
Yes it will be devastating for everyone including those that have done the preparations.
But there is no hope at all at painless reformation simply because even those that understand the gravity of the situation are not willing to sacrifice even the comfort in order to starve the beast.
A lot of people of good will are complaining about news media, Hollywood and the rest of the institutions that made the America of today but they keep feeding them with their dollars by paying for the cable bills, consuming the sewer coming out the Hollywood and so on.
Everyone will agree that one can't have a cake and eat too yet most try to live like it's possible.
Red Alert of Economic Collapse? Bring it on.