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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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Raw materials are likely to be a limitation here. Even if all the factories in your stack are in the same place (behind the same wall, protected by the same army) you still need your bottom level inputs.
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More people means more knowledge, though, at least to a point. Optimizing your tech stack for the smallest possible number of people is an interesting challenge but really risky in practice.
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