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Apocalypse Bunker Fails as Wealthy Residents Turn on Each Other (futurism.com)

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most of the first European settlers didn't have those skills and either died or were rescued by native peoples, whom they later thanked by massacring them.

The settlers were often townsfolk or recently demobilized soldiers, not experienced farmers. And it was a different ecosystem, with greater extremes of climate and different edible plants and pests, so even the agriculture needed to be adapted.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 5 days ago

Most of the first European settlers didn’t have those skills and either died or were rescued by native peoples, whom they later thanked by massacring them.

Agreed on both points - needing to know how to grow food and not die from your own sanitation shortcomings, and how to ruthlessly kill the competition, those are the skills that get you past Thunderdome.