People will adjust. What happened on Portugal and Spain was caused by excessive centralization of the power grid, not by digitization. If somehow we can’t keep the centralized grid running anymore, we will break it down, and bear the extra costs for that.

Also, the sequence of a catastrophe is almost never a riot. Where do people get the idea of riots? People just go and do the right thing.

Seriously, has none of the politicians ever thought about this?

The technicians did.

Where are the backups?

You mean generators? Lots of people have those.

Are we just going full “YOLO” on the reliance on the power grid?

I would understand this question if you lived in 1925, but by 2025 you should know the answer already. Are you so blind about everything that needs electricity that you think disaster would come from the lack of money?

Not wasps. The majority of wasps you’ll see are fertile.

Also, insect hives can house several fertile females. Some exist around a single queen, but they are an exception, not the norm.