I was thinking more along the lines of trading for food/ ammo, but whatever works. Mechanics, people in health care, mechanical engineers, farmers. These people will be important to have around

You will have to come up with something other than sex with your wife as trade bait

LMAO

She can give a toothless hummer.

Welp in that case....move. Lmao
I keed I keed

ROFL

I would just start killing everyone. ghenkis khan status

Might check Netflix!

Now now accountants can be useful too! You need someone to keep an accurate count of your kills! Plus someone has to keep the 'kill list' up to date!

I wasn't

Another big "What If" question that I would like answered.

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Excellent post, most of which I agree with.

Everything would come down to basic survival , Potable water, food , shelter, arms and safety(a secure) place to reside would become the prime motivators. Decent into tribalism, people banding together, for safety would become the norm.

History says that societal collapse in a major community will lead to overall decline of all civilizations.

Example ; the Roman Empire. Complete decent into barbarism.

If any posters have the patience Reads Gibbons "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire".

Human nature will Take over!

Except that the Roman Empire didn't descend into barbarism after it fell. A good example is what happened in Britain when Rome fell; the Roman army literally packed up and moved back to Rome, leaving a tremendous power vacuum and a lot of disorganization, much like what would happen to us in this hypothetical. As a result, the people there banded together into small groups and saw to their own interests; then, the Saxons invaded from Germany with so little resistance that it was almost like they just moved in. Their cultures merged and formed a new society, the Anglo-Saxons.

We no longer call them the 'Dark Ages' (they are now properly the 'Early Middle Ages') as the image of rampant barbarism and lawlessness is misleading to say the least. Innovation, for example, continued, but it was less along the lines of the theoretical or philosophical as it was in Classical Greece and Rome, and more along the lines of the practical, such as pattern welded steel and architectural advancements. There were despots and brutal monarchs, of course (it was, after all, medieval times), but it wasn't nearly so uncivilized as many think. We would be able to expect much the same.

I'd let all the psychos with guns off each other. That'd be a good fresh start for society.

rape and pillage. i thought that was a forgone conclusion.

Has this not been covered in one of your other threads on this same subject?