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Comment by ryandrake

Fallout shelters seem flawed because, although they allow an individual or single family to survive, they don’t provide an enclave where civilization can regroup and rebuild collectively. They just assume that a bunch of surviving, rugged individualists would just magically -function- after the war. A very libertarian-optimist view of humanity.

I think the more likely dystopian-post-apocalypse looks more like Elysium, with a small number of rich people grouped together, living in relative luxury, served by robotics and automation, physically separated from the rest who are barely surviving, subsisting in the wasteland.

parent ryandrake 2 years ago

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