You'd be surprised. My dad grew up in the Great Depression and during the war, though he implied that this kind of thing was the way of life before that in small towns: even if people had jobs, they still made their own clothing, had gardens, and hunted. People were remarkably self-sufficient. They had cars (one of the few manufactured goods they bought) but they maintained the cars themselves as well as their equipment. They even owned a little livestock.
So yeah, a lot of people are going to be lost if we ever get into an economic state where consumer culture breaks down.
It's distressing how quickly we loose skills. Throw most Gen X/Y-ers back a generation or two and they'd be utterly lost - at least at first. We're also pretty adaptable.
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You'd be surprised. My dad grew up in the Great Depression and during the war, though he implied that this kind of thing was the way of life before that in small towns: even if people had jobs, they still made their own clothing, had gardens, and hunted. People were remarkably self-sufficient. They had cars (one of the few manufactured goods they bought) but they maintained the cars themselves as well as their equipment. They even owned a little livestock.
So yeah, a lot of people are going to be lost if we ever get into an economic state where consumer culture breaks down.
It's distressing how quickly we loose skills. Throw most Gen X/Y-ers back a generation or two and they'd be utterly lost - at least at first. We're also pretty adaptable.