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How your creative engineers manage to engineer if they're starving or at the mercy of gangs? Only if they're well fed and protected in a strong community can th
by jmnicolas 4y ago
How your creative engineers manage to engineer if they're starving or at the mercy of gangs? Only if they're well fed and protected in a strong community can they thrive and help back.
- dragontamer 4y agoSee my Genghis Khan example downthread. The first warlord to protect the nerds and solidify logistics will build the strongest army. Sparta never became a world power. Raw brute force alone does nothing. The first move of the Great Khan was to capture bureaucrats from China to organize his army. That's what separated the Spartans from the Great Khan, and that will be the same issue if society ever degenerates to that state again.
- jmnicolas 4y agoYou're thinking macro, I'm thinking micro. I don't care of the grand scheme of things like standing armies etc, I care to have the means to live or survive long enough to anything survivable (so not planet destroying asteroid or full scale atomic war, but local disruptions, civil war etc) Guns and non perishable food aren't enough and they're not a warranty either, but they're a good start and better than nothing.