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The math seems a bit off on the 70k USD per person redistribution; GDP per capita in rich countries is around $70,000, but worldwide it's much lower. Wikipedia

The math seems a bit off on the 70k USD per person redistribution; GDP per capita in rich countries is around $70,000, but worldwide it's much lower. Wikipedia: > The per capita PPP GWP in 2017 was approximately 17,500 international dollars according to the World Factbook. According to the World Bank, the 2020 GWP in current dollars was approximately $84.705 trillion. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product)

lifeisstillgood 4y ago
My bad. I was thinking of total wealth - not sure where I got the figure back then (took longer than this) but wikipedia has total global wealth at 450 Trillion dollars or 57,000 per person (8bn). I suspect with PPP or different assumptions 70k is quite feasible. I think my main argument is stronger - if everyone had 70,000 of wealth then houses would be less than 70k. I am reminded of watching a movie with my kids - "Home" about a group of bumbling aliens who take over earth and move all the humans to Australia. (One girl escapes with a friendly alien and has adventures and learns the meaning of ... etc). It's fun for younger kids. Anyway, the point is that super advanced (but bumbling and ultimately nice) aliens simply transport every human to Australia and plonk them all down in front of instantly created suburban houses. Some people (elites?) will lose out - their houses will be less nice than pre-invasion, but for the vast majority of people it's a major upgrade - a life changing improvement. And roughly that's what the "if everyone had 70,000" idea is about. As the plot was not challenging especially on the third rewatch, I would try to imagine what happens next in Australia. Do people live pleasent suburban lives and human happiness is complete, or does it devolve into Haiti-like chaos ? Sadly my money is on Haiti as what keeps us from not killing or eating our neighbours is a sort of common story about how safe we are, how police and other services are there for us etc My only upside is that the aliens might do a random sorting of humans. If you were say in Fallujah or Haiti or Yemen and you and your neighbours and society all got moved to the same neighbourhood in Australia, then you take the same social structures, the same pressures of expectation and social performance, the same grudges. Disaster. But randomly spread (families) out and it seems different - the idea you will hold onto political grudges against a Norweigian neighbour and a Brazilian opposite seems odd - especially now you have to overcome the shock of the chnage and frankly the much nicer living standards you now have. Also lots of ice cream was available which might have helped

lifeisstillgood 4y ago

My bad. I was thinking of total wealth - not sure where I got the figure back then (took longer than this) but wikipedia has total global wealth at 450 Trillion dollars or 57,000 per person (8bn). I suspect with PPP or different assumptions 70k is quite feasible. I think my main argument is stronger - if everyone had 70,000 of wealth then houses would be less than 70k. I am reminded of watching a movie with my kids - "Home" about a group of bumbling aliens who take over earth and move all the humans to Australia. (One girl escapes with a friendly alien and has adventures and learns the meaning of ... etc). It's fun for younger kids. Anyway, the point is that super advanced (but bumbling and ultimately nice) aliens simply transport every human to Australia and plonk them all down in front of instantly created suburban houses. Some people (elites?) will lose out - their houses will be less nice than pre-invasion, but for the vast majority of people it's a major upgrade - a life changing improvement. And roughly that's what the "if everyone had 70,000" idea is about. As the plot was not challenging especially on the third rewatch, I would try to imagine what happens next in Australia. Do people live pleasent suburban lives and human happiness is complete, or does it devolve into Haiti-like chaos ? Sadly my money is on Haiti as what keeps us from not killing or eating our neighbours is a sort of common story about how safe we are, how police and other services are there for us etc My only upside is that the aliens might do a random sorting of humans. If you were say in Fallujah or Haiti or Yemen and you and your neighbours and society all got moved to the same neighbourhood in Australia, then you take the same social structures, the same pressures of expectation and social performance, the same grudges. Disaster. But randomly spread (families) out and it seems different - the idea you will hold onto political grudges against a Norweigian neighbour and a Brazilian opposite seems odd - especially now you have to overcome the shock of the chnage and frankly the much nicer living standards you now have. Also lots of ice cream was available which might have helped