As a software engineer I often think about how laughably useless my skillset would be in any kind of survival or societal reset sort of situation.
You’re a software engineer. You at least know the very basics of digital electronics, and can probably work your way backward to rudimentary power supplies.
You are far from fucked.
Mathematicians though? Oof I worry about them, if they did anything too practical they’d be physicists.
Guys I’ve figured out the solution to our food problem! First, assume the pantry is full…
you would just be able to repurpose the way you think logically into something else. I’d say you would be more ahead than a lot of others in a catastrophic scenario!
I find it amazing that finance, sales, etc are held in such high regard when it’s science and technology that advance society.
Most scientific and engineering skills would also be useless if civilization collapses. For example, I am a scientific software developer. Most of my work has been for medical research, which is something people tend to respect. However, I wouldn’t be able to do anything useful with numerical modelling in a survival situation. My limited skills as an amateur home renovator would be far more relevant.
I agree with the rebuilding civilization from scratch part, but it’s still what advances society.
*In this case, what will advance society is farming equipment. Machining science.
When all the billionaires are dead and there’s no one to create our jobs for us. :(
“Oh no, all the scum-masters are gone, who will annoy us with their inane babbling now?”
scum-masters
Best typo ever.
Oh it was not a mistake, trust me.
One once tried showing me a slideshow on what it is they actually do, because the sauna we had for that evening was from their company.
Guy couldn’t fuckin read the room though and actually went through with his PowerPoint presentation. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how someone could ignore so many social cues from us, the people who had nothing to do with his work, his company, or any work at all. Purely recreational night and dude starts it with that.
Yuck yuck yuck
I make powerpoints.
City planner here:
“I say ‘No.’”
i am unemployed.
The USA has a bs mythology that it was founded by ‘pioneers’ and that a wild wild west existed. The untold history of the USA is really the story of finance. Those that financed, the joint stock companies that helped to bring immigrants over. The land speculators, and recruiters that brought over Irish and other immigrants over in the 19th century, through money provided by rail and steam companies.
These type of post-apocalyptic memes perpetuate the stereotype of a self-made country. When in reality financiers from England were offshoring labor to a country with fewer regulations and no copyright/patent laws.🎵 I don’t want to set the world on fire 🎵
One of the ways I try to sell my trade to students, is telling them how important it is for the world. Machining, welding, plumbing, carpentry and so on. All of it would be primus motor to get society back.
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get them into gardening, its like a real life infinite food glitch.
Systems Administrator.
No Social Media Coordinators? No regional PR reps? No “local small business” for them to inherit?
He was waiting for his jet.
But there were no snacks :(
oh this picture seems taken from fallout 1 or 2 :)
Yeah, keep believing that.
Ope, found the useless executive.
