Not if he's lost the ability to fabricate production methods. Or even lift a hammer, move raw materials, shift a four hundred kilo palette etc. Strength is necessary to build.
Any of you ever watch that Idiocracy movie? Sums up Dekker's point pretty damned well. And guess what?: all you got to do is take a little wander around this place on a day off to see how it's coming true.
One Egyptian couldn't lift a 3/4 tonne block of Limestone on his own, mankind has
never endevoured a task alone. The mistake a lot of these thought experiments make is to assume that you are totally alone without tools etc, in such a situation
any human would die, regardless of physical ability. Humanity is designed to form communities and groups for a reason, so the entire concept that people, if they lost their technology, would be useless is flawed in the first place, we form groups and tackle the problem as a group, have done since we were neolithic, one Prehistoric man would have died pretty quickly, regardless of physical ability, a community of prehistoric men would be far more likely to survive, not because of strength through muscles, but strength through numbers. Those same rules still apply.
