• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Electricity.
    If you lose electricity most people lose access to:
    Hot water
    Running water (if you have a well)
    Air conditioning
    Indoor heat
    Television
    Internet
    Indoor lighting
    And hot meals if you don’t have gas.

    Losing electricity would cut you off from almost all of your luxuries as we’ve become completely dependent on it over the last century or so.

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        5 days ago

        It’s a utility and so I agree it’s a necessity. A luxury would be some of the things electricity allows like Internet.

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            4 days ago

            Yeah in the modern age internet access should be considered a necessity. There are a lot of things you can’t do without the internet (like get a job or pay bills).

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        Not necessarily, you could absolutely survive without electricity, I live in a predominantly Amish area that proves that.
        It just wouldn’t be any fun.

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          It does take a bit of preparation for the lifestyle that we are not ready for. Ways to store and prepare food, maintain temperatures, get information, illuminate spaces.