eh, we certainly wouldn't *all* be better off because the first consequence would likely be the deaths of like 90% of the human population 😅
Hard to even calculate how much couldn't exist or be sustained if we had to collapse all the way back to Dunbar's number as far as societal scaling.
The “one second after” effect.
A rabbit hole genre of post-apocalyptic fiction was my life a few years back.
I think less than 90% would die off, but the effects are not knowable.
We would be stronger if the result was tribal and local, for generations ahead. Hard times would create strong men.
