It's funny how people think a post-apocalyptic landscape will be relatively flat socioeconomically. At most they think there will be small-scale warlords or Dunbar-scale anarchist communes. No. There will be deathstar billionaires with private armies and narrow-deep tech stacks.
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I'm an ideologue here. I like some billionaires, dislike others. If there's no broad-based civilizational condition, I'd be willing to pick among billionaires rather than being out in the wilderness in some sort of ratty indie survivalist camp full of starving people in henleys.
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In many ways, this is already happening of course. I've called it a 4th world condition. And the gated communities are underwritten by billionaire developers, not by states. A lot of us live in one billionaire bubble, earning and spending in other billionaire bubbles :D
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Slight pushback tho i generally agree: the assumption here is that floating currency will retain value without the sovereign debt of nation states to hold it together (or that it can quickly be converted to valuable resources in the period immediately after the calamity occurs)
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