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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Well, okay, but understand that I don't *think* I'm an entirely unreasonable observer, and you've apparently said something that's confusing to *me*, because it seemed like you were talking about what budget would be needed to create an autarkic system...
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...and one with a reasonable facsimile of the range of products of current industry. I think on a $3B budget and with a small city, you would be hard pressed to create an autarkic system that could maintain a c.a. 1800 standard of living even given current knowledge.
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