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The problem with total collapse isn't electricity, it's food.
The people who know how to grow food and the people who know how to protect farms from raiders are no longer the same. Almost no one knows how to grow food or raise livestock, and the people best at raiding and stealing are criminal gangs. Anyone with a stash of food and the means to produce more will be easily spotted from the road by roving warbands. The leaders of those bands will mostly be thugs and psychopaths. They will kill the farmers, rape the women and move on, leaving desolation in their wake.
Only a community that combines agricultural knowhow and a solid defense will be able to fend off these warbands.
TBH a 99% dieoff - 3,300,000 survivors - is probably wildly optimistic.
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@judgedread what are we calling it if its 90% collapse. like elon insulates texas and preserves knowledge and can still launch some rockets and power grid but its largely outside the publics access to these technologies. Like monks or islam preserving Roman literature during the middle ages
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@alchemy As long as there's division of labor for manufacturing, transport for fertilizer and produce and the electricity works part of each day it's not total collapse and most people will survive.
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@alchemy If a warlord keeps industry going it's not a technological collapse.
Falling back to feudal organization is not such a bad scenario provided there's enough trade between the city states to maintain the power grid.
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@judgedread The overlap between the amish and exmil working class guys isn't big. Ive been at parties with both because they work construction together and live near each other. they dont intermarry but if worse came to worse they might cooperate. Esp in areas where a warlord can plausibility claime to be the government and is tech savy enough to keep the haber bosch process going.
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