It can be under certain circumstances, its generally desireable for a country to be able to feed itself for example, and being able to produce products yourself is useful when negotiating trade agreements. The problem is when autarky becomes conflated with isolationism.

I suspect a lot of guns, explosives, body armor and anti-armor munitions due to the immediate civil war that would break out in most countries as the wealthy elite tells the government to confiscate everyones matter replicators.

UK here, in austerity since 2008… it ain’t temporary this is the economy they want.

Fascism ultimately tanks any system because it prices loyalty above all else and you inevitably end up without any compitent people in charge.

When the demons realise humans have come a long way from the last time they showed up and start seeing demon ivory on ebay.

I wonder what happens if you plant kudzu and bamboo in the same spot, endlessly climbing plant tower?

I mean… they are out of touch. I’m sure its possible to have a pain free switch over but when I had trouble the advice was interspersed with quite a few caveats. In essence Linux is ‘easy to setup but…’ Still gonna try again though, also guys that laptop you all said was dying because linux made it crash is still working fine on windows with no sign of trouble.

And on that day the collective adsorbed so much crippling anxiety that it never left its cube again and the threat was forever vanquished.