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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b2b supply chain (billionaire-to-billionaire) plus minimum-viable closed-circulation material economy.
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remember, most billionaires aren't going to be in it to save the world or as many as they can. They'll just take the smallest possible group of the elect with them.
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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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I also immediately assumed they’d be warring city-states fighting over resources. Friendly b2b relationships do make survival much easier.
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Yes, billionaire survivalism only makes sense if you’re solving for a few generations at most. Beyond that it is fragile.
"I submit to you that your Empire is illogical because it cannot endure. I submit that you are illogical to be a willing part of it."
- Kirk to Mirror Spock, on the Empire's demise
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Best tweet of the year. Best read out of context



