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I don't know, if we knew for certain the world was doomed, I would expect at least a substantial fraction of the world to spend their last years working towards
by smallnamespace 10y ago
I don't know, if we knew for certain the world was doomed, I would expect at least a substantial fraction of the world to spend their last years working towards the small hope of salvation rather than giving in to complete despair.
- ehsanu1 10y agoI agree, but I also think a significant fraction would not. I'd expect a lot of markets to crash and burn, as people quit for various reasons, with a lot of knock-on effects. I'm not sure how it would turn out, I just feel like the world would be turned upside down. Now it could end up being like war-time economies which boom due to high demand for military goods, in this case for all the work needed to build a space colony. But in a war, at least people can hope to live on.