[SketchySeaBeast]

And would literally put us back to the stone age. Even the neolithic had trade networks.

[darepublic]

Don't think you understood my meaning. Trade community and tech are all good things and can coexist with self sustaining communities

[SketchySeaBeast]

Please break down what you mean by self-sustaining for me then - tech is super specialized, requiring special resources to construct. There is very little of modern standards that you can self sustain - really, food is about it, and for everything else you need trade, and can't self sustain.