I'm sure it would be fixed very soon, but hypothetically if there was a long outage, we would have to go back to the way things were done 30 or 40 years ago. So I would get a paper check from my employer, walk to the credit union to deposit it, withdraw some cash for groceries and stuff, order some checks to use for paying my mortgage and utilities, balance my checkbook, etc. Hell, I remember doing these things in the early 2000's. My first mortgage even had one of those coupon books. I guess I would have to get a landline phone too, and figure out how to hook up the big TV antenna that is still on my house. A lot of people would lose jobs but other industries would come back, like newspapers and the postal service. Libraries would suddenly become a lot more popular.