"The Great Die Off"

[Skvez]

Quote:Unemployed in the US officially means anyone between 18-65 that could be working who are not "working"

No it isn't
Unemployment in the US is defined as anyone between 18 and 65 who isn't in prison, in training, on disability and WHO WANTS TO WORK. Huge numbers of Americans have given up trying to find a job and so are not included in their statistics.
But thats beside the point.

A lot of your other points are regarding their standard of living. Thats again not relevant when discussing their ability to survive in a grid-down-die-off.

A labourer who picks tobacco once a year isn't going to be able to feed themselves and probably lives in a home that relies on utility water and heat.

People in rural lifestily may have a smaller culture shock adjusting to a grid-down survival lifestyle but very few are prepared for it.

The UK is in much worse state. We have too many people for our food-producing land and what food we do produce tends to be speciality food that is expensive to transport but not optimal calories/acre (meat rather than carbohydrate).

There would be a tiny fraction of 1% of the population in the UK who would not be extremely adversly affected by the loss of the grid, water and retail infrastructure.
There may 'only' be a 90% die off but the other 10% will have to fight tooth and nail to be in the 10% that survives, they won't be carrying on as normal.