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.
There are workarounds. I didn’t say an exact miniature civilization isomorphic to the one we have. I said narrow/deep. A sustainable high-functioning deep tech capability that can survive a collapse. I’d expect a deep hoarding component for example, for certain things.
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I think you don't appreciate quite how many things it would take even to sustain 1900 level technology. Where are your specialists in metrology in all of this (you need gauge blocks). Where are your specialists in high volume specialty chemicals and their infrastructure?
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I think you’re wildly misunderstanding what I’m proposing
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