Quote from: RE on Feb 16, 2024, 05:26 PMQuote from: K-Dog on Feb 16, 2024, 04:54 PMNo, these are nothing like pioneers. They have no skills to provide for their basic needs. Everyone is beholden to the ruling authority for food. Video games have not prepared anyone to grow food.
Not like Pioneers. Like poor Black kids in Detroit. They form gangs, they sell drugs, do smash and grb etc.
RE
A better example might be like African countries like Rwanda that turn into failed states. The regular system of food distribution fails, and the UN steps in with Food Aid. They send in a truckload to a central distribution point with an armed escort. They turn over the food to some local gang leader to pass out, but he only hands out food to his friends. The guys not on the friend list form a gang and hit the gang at the food distribution point. Or they hit individuals piecemeeal after they head home with the groceries.
In this case, instead of the UN, it would be the Federal or State goobermint passing out the food instead of the UN. This goes on as long as the feds chave farm areas under their control they can take food from, but this dwindles and food aid drops ff to the cities. The remaining city folk start migrating outward in groups toward farming communities to hit them up directly. Farming community forms self protection militia to fight off the wandering Zombies. People on both sides are killed off until a truce is established and the nomads left become part of the community militia. These groups now jostle for resources with neighboring groups, since none of them has everything necessary yet. They start trading with each other also, and finally you build up to a self sustaining region with a bunch of groups that has enough people to defend itself but not so many they can't feed.
RE