What specialist skill/skills are you actively cultivating to assure your usefulness no matter the state of the world?
We hear all the gay commies thinking they'll be the poets and prostitutes after the revolution, but what real skills are you developing?
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It's not the end of the world, but you need to have a lot of faith that the institutions that exist today will continue to resemble themselves in luxury and complexity for the remainder of your life if you plan to rely on those kinds of skills
i don't think it is possible to put the digital cat back in the bag anymore. even in some fantastical, meteor-hits-the-world type collapse, people who remember computers (everyone) will intend to keep using them and will need someone to work them.
remember also that, even though it might feel like it, most computerization in the world isn't twitter and facebook, but manufacturing robots in factories, refinery monitoring systems, vitals monitors in hospitals, and variable valve timing to make your motors more efficient. the gayification of the visible online world hides a lot of true, efficient, White goodness that digitalization has brought us.
that being said, my specialization *is* video games which *are* a hell of a lot less important in a collapse scenario. even then, though, i'd bet good money that an electronics engineer who can fix up old handhelds and a programmer who can give you pong to play on them would together not be starving even in a dog-eat-dog, bare necessities world. entertainment has a value even in survival. it's why that guy drew a face on a volleyball and started talking to it.
I agree we aren't going to fall back into pre-industrial times, but the knowledge and skill to build these computerized systems is being lost and exported as we speak.
remember also that, even though it might feel like it, most computerization in the world isn't twitter and facebook, but manufacturing robots in factories, refinery monitoring systems, vitals monitors in hospitals, and variable valve timing to make your motors more efficient. the gayification of the visible online world hides a lot of true, efficient, White goodness that digitalization has brought us.
that being said, my specialization *is* video games which *are* a hell of a lot less important in a collapse scenario. even then, though, i'd bet good money that an electronics engineer who can fix up old handhelds and a programmer who can give you pong to play on them would together not be starving even in a dog-eat-dog, bare necessities world. entertainment has a value even in survival. it's why that guy drew a face on a volleyball and started talking to it.