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>You CAN rebuild industries. It is fucking hard though, because you lost all the institutional knowledge over that 30 year deindustrialization period. All the old guys who knew how to do things are retired or dead.
Not only that, but the entire education system has been completely destroyed, to the point where less than 50% of adult mutts are sufficiently literate to clear 6th grade requirements, and 0% are numerate