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It would be a disaster no doubt, but people would use generators and older vehicles to temporarily fill critical functions. There might be an economic collapse,
by Houshalter 12y ago
It would be a disaster no doubt, but people would use generators and older vehicles to temporarily fill critical functions. There might be an economic collapse, but there would also be a lot of new jobs to rebuild stuff.
- mati 12y agoBeware not to fall for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
- Houshalter 12y agoI'm not sure how that's relevant.
- pyre 12y agoThe idea that rebuilding from disaster generates jobs doesn't require a mention of the Broken Window Fallacy. No one is creating the disaster with the aim be 'generating jobs' or attempting to argue that the disaster is a good things because it creates jobs.
- TeMPOraL 12y ago> but people would use generators and older vehicles to temporarily fill critical functions Only if they remained calm and organized. When your (electricity-dependent) job is gone your first worry will be securing access to food and medicine. So depending on how much damage the incident does to power grid and how quickly governments react, you may see anything from short-term economical crisis to riots and collapse of the society.