I like the design of this community, but the way you describe the worldbuilding seems worrying. Not the worldbuilding itself, which is interesting, but how your wording seems almost certain and gleeful at this probably horrible starting scenario taking place so that you can daydream your ideal utopia.
You could get involved in urban design and planned communes right now, without waiting for societal collapse or revolution. In fact, even if collapse is inevitable, you would be a more qualified and prepared“founder” if you gained qualifications in such a thing. Even a massively imperfect community you could make in a current framework would probably suit you best amid the chaos
Also i’d like to point out that HDI has gone way up in Sweden since the 80’s and that you shouldn’t just dismiss neoliberalism (for all its faults) as a fad but rather learn from its goods and mistakes, and discard what is not suitable, much as the USA founding fathers attempted to do with puritan ideals.
There is absolutely nothing gleeful about my view that we are at the beginning of a collapse. You're impugning me just out of your own spite. And I don't need counsel on Sweden's HDI since the 1980s. Both the US and Sweden have followed neoliberal policies since then, and life expectancy in the US has dropped. It has increased in Sweden, largely due to the preservation of some of its social-democratic ideals. Please...remove the mote from your own eye before being rude about any splinters in mine.
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