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I think in case of calamity I'd rather eat / drink than extrude aluminium and build combine harvesters, but ok.


You can't store food and water on a hard disk, but you can get food from a combine harvester. Agricultural productivity is critically important for food and drink. The Lykov family partly starved to death one winter because their food production was so marginal that a late frost that spring wiped out their millet production for the year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lykov_family#History




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