There's no reason we have to revert to some medieval standard of living with sewage in the streets and 99% of the population living as impoverished, illiterate serfs, or that we'll be forced into some sort of post-apocalyptic scenario with thousands of people fighting to the death over a Saltine cracker.
Inevitably, this will happen in some places - but in other places it will seem like a paradise. It all depends on the mind-set of the people. You can't release people with slave-minds hierarchical collectivists and expect them to function in any sort of order or civility or productivity. The upper level will say "who will do this for me" the lower level will say "who will tell me what to do?". Meanwhile the levies are failing and the power plant is about to go out.
Yet, those who have been practicing free-thinking and innovation (even if stifled by the system) will survive and thrive in the new world. Nobody will be completely self-sufficient, but will have to be responsible for their own food, shelter and clothing. The resources will be available: someone will produce cloth for sale, seeds for planting, materials for building. All it takes is the mindset to 'do' and 'learn' and 'do more' and these resources will create a peaceful and prosperous civilization... that is until the slave-mind collective does what slave-mind collectives always do: raid and steal from the prospering. Then the productive will innovate again, except this time innovate new weapons and fortifications for defense... and here we go again.
Well put. I do agree that this oppressor/slave mentality is very much active in our current system. But when I say, "There's no reason..." I'm just saying there's room for other possibilities in this new system because by definition it's a new system and thus doesn't have to obey the rules of the old or any narratives involving dystopias or utopias. Really we don't know what the future holds; the only certainty is there is no certainty (sounds like a quote from some philosopher in a cave with a beard, haha).