I agree on this completely.

One interesting angle I saw on this today related to the 0% ghost gun story.

By owning a CNC machine and ordering metal bars, one can manufacture whatever they want, including guns. The design and build plans are open source and can be updated with new models. With a CNC and a 3D printer, nearly anything can be manufactured.

If SHTF, how nice will it be to be able to build what you need at home? Small, local manufactures could make all sorts of wares and sell or trade them for things of value that others make, hunt, fish, or grow.

You can fairly easily, all things considered in a SHTF scenario, make little micro-communities with a few different small scale manufacturing setups.

I picture an old world village where you have the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, etc. There could be utensil makers, gun makers, knife makers, small engine part makers, etc.

All decentralized, all open source.

I agree on this completely.

One interesting angle I saw on this today related to the 0% ghost gun story.

By owning a CNC machine and ordering metal bars, one can manufacture whatever they want, including guns. The design and build plans are open source and can be updated with new models. With a CNC and a 3D printer, nearly anything can be manufactured.

If SHTF, how nice will it be to be able to build what you need at home? Small, local manufactures could make all sorts of wares and sell or trade them for things of value that others make, hunt, fish, or grow.

You can fairly easily, all things considered in a SHTF scenario, make little micro-communities with a few different small scale manufacturing setups.

I picture an old world village where you have the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, etc. There could be utensil makers, gun makers, knife makers, small engine part makers, etc.

All decentralized, all open source.