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I would have to agree with the majority of people here and to not put yourself in a position that someone else is dictating your life based on your "value".
Everyboyd has skills that are useful. If you've banded together then any unskilled person can help with farming or basic upkeep and maintenance of whatever you've put together. They can carry things or be runners for the people who are skilled. If I take it upon myself to learn the skills and be prepared, I can take unskilled and unprepared people and hopefully teach them enough and put them to task to better the group's overall survival chance.
I would welcome most people into camp, or at least I like to believe I would. Hopefully either be able to barter goods or skills with the new person, or possibly welcome a new friend into our community.
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JPG, if any of the scenarios are to be believed as portrayed in books like Patriots, One Second After and Lucifer's Hammer then it becomes painfully apparent that in light of dwindling resources everyone will have to be able to multitask in order to justify being fed and watered. People with skills can also do unskilled labor but not the other way around. WTSHTF, you won't have the luxury to learn on the job...you'll be valuable to others and even to yourself for what you can do NOW.
I often think about it (draw from history) and invariably come to the same conclusion. Skills+brains=Life
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Well we would have to define the event to make decisions such as that. Depending on the severity of the situation, it would dictate a lot of things, not just whether your skill set is valuable to the group. I won't argue that in a severe situation that the unskilled will be left for dead or be food, but in that case, building a community won't be very easy either since there would be extensive violence over resources, thus no real need or room for unskilled laborers.
Gaining skills is always a good idea, regardless of the situation.
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