Not to rain on your parade, but the once-monthly ration line will stretch around the block several times for the plastic, metal, wood, and any other materials with which to feed your 3D manufacturing machine - assuming you’re able to get one.
One suspects the government will have collected them all and found a way to tax any ownership and/or use.
Well ... what do I know ... just that Motley Fool is raving over it ... :-) ...
And it’s not just them ... the technology is already being used now. With it coming down in price, it will end up being the equivalent of the Industrial Revolution.
So you do what they did back in the USSR. Live “na levo,” meaning “under the table.” You want to make sure you can always jump that line at the doctor’s office? Maybe he’ll see you in a “special” after hours appointment? Easy; you build a deck on his house. To get the lumber, you give the guy at the state lumberyard a few bottles of vodka, he looks the other way while the lumber disappears.
Fill the garage with plywood, drywall, cases of scotch and cigarettes. Keep handy the phone numbers of a few hookers that owe you favors.
Make sure the cop down the street gets his piece of the action.
That’s what socialism does to a society. And if you want to get by, you’ll get good at it.