Current Events > Would the snap even realistically have improved the economy?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Losing half the population if the world would definitely reduce scarcity and help with many issues, but the sudden chaotic loss of so much talent and workers would be almost impossible to recover from completely.

No because only half the people would be using those services

Idk it doesn't make much sense

The world would have been actually devastated.

The number of critical workers that would have vanished means that the world would have been in full economic collapse.

meestermj posted...

The world would have been actually devastated.

The number of critical workers that would have vanished means that the world would have been in full economic collapse.

Or what if the snap took out like 80% of all the engineers/scientists in the world and the world was just full of middle manager types that cant actually solve issues or move humanity forward?

The U.S. wouldve figured out a way to make it even worse tbh.

rexcrk posted...

The U.S. wouldve figured out a way to make it even worse tbh.

hey your coworker got dusted Im gonna need you to cover his shift or else corporate is gonna be on my ass

The only thing it would have improved is environmental destruction / habitat loss.

In the comics it's resolved by Nebula using the gauntlet to reset everything back to before the snap. In the movies they just brought everyone back to life. They took an already dumb story and made it dumber.

Although the economy isn't doing great as it is for the common person, it is more attuned to the current population than it is to if there was only half the population, so the current system would likely collapse.

The snap would do wonders for the environment though, assuming it only wipes out half of all sentient life and not like plants/animals.

Yes, in the long term and order is eventually restored. But before which will be many many years of mass chaos before things inevitably stabilize.

Then wages would skyrocket due to low labor supply, less demand means cheaper products and goods. Also property values would naturally plummet of course. And this isn't even getting into the positives for the envirement.

It'd be post plague era Europe all over again essentially.

I don't see the world recovering at all for many decades. The number of people gone with the snap, the number of people who would kill themselves, the number of people who would die without support, etc would probably bring us to down to like 30%. All the people who know how to run infrastructure would be in disarray. The cleanup would take ten years even if everyone had their shit together. We'd basically be like The Stand except more people still left over.

I think I looked it up and did the math and if the snap happened today it would only put the world population back to the 1960s!

Tyranthraxus posted...

The only thing it would have improved is environmental destruction / habitat loss.

In the comics it's resolved by Nebula using the gauntlet to reset everything back to before the snap. In the movies they just brought everyone back to life. They took an already dumb story and made it dumber.

Didn't Nebula also try to use it to give herself power or something similar?

I actually prefer how the movie did it, if we're going to accept the suspension of disbelief of the world surviving it then I think it makes the most sense.

Instead of halfing the population Thanos could have just doubled the resources. Win win, and his farm would have been more impressive.

The MCU couldn't even begin to accurately portray how devastating the snap would be to the world.

It would be the most depressing shit ever filmed if they did.

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More so they do it because they want farmers to make the less valuable food crops rather than just the more valuable luxury goods crops.

Prismsblade posted...

Yes, in the long term and order is eventually restored. But before which will be many many years of mass chaos before things inevitably stabilize.

Then wages would skyrocket due to low labor supply, less demand means cheaper products and goods. Also property values would naturally plummet of course. And this isn't even getting into the positives for the envirement.

It'd be post plague era Europe all over again essentially.

I didn't know post plague Europe had property values

KarsaToblakai posted...

Didn't Nebula also try to use it to give herself power or something similar?

I actually prefer how the movie did it, if we're going to accept the suspension of disbelief of the world surviving it then I think it makes the most sense.

She healed her otherwise mutilated body but otherwise she didn't "give herself" anything except the gauntlet.

It bothers me that as damaging as thr snap would be: magically having the other half of the universe suddenly appear would probably cause immense problems as well. Especially years down the line...

Aressar posted...

The snap would do wonders for the environment though, assuming it only wipes out half of all sentient life and not like plants/animals.

iirc didn't it also take out animals? When they do the second snap Ant-Man sees some birds that weren't there before and that's his clue that it worked

Lairen posted...

It bothers me that as damaging as thr snap would be: magically having the other half of the universe suddenly appear would probably cause immense problems as well. Especially years down the line...

Not to mention the sheer amount of bullshit interpersonal drama with relationships that are now in a weird spot because people would have hooked up again during the 5 years.

The immediate fallout would be pretty ugly. The world economy and financial systems would abruptly collapse overnight. but long term it would increase the value of labor and reduce scarcity for things like housing by a ton and probably be a net gain for the average person(thats still alive)

look at it this way, theres a strong argument to be made that the Black Death plague was the beginning of the end of feudalism and serfdom in Europe.

littlebro07 posted...

iirc didn't it also take out animals? When they do the second snap Ant-Man sees some birds that weren't there before and that's his clue that it worked

Don't think it did. No animals or plants were shown dying. Just people.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Don't think it did. No animals or plants were shown dying. Just people.

Looked it up and found this:

https://screenrant.com/infinity-war-thanos-snap-animals-plants-killed/

In an interview with Birth Movies Death, Marvel Studios CEO Kevin Feige confirmed that it wasn't just people that died with that finger snapping. When asked about plants and animals, Feige confirmed that half of the plants and animals of the world are now gone, too. He said, "Yes! Yes. All life."

Feige is a sadistic bastard

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The Snap didn't single out the Earth, it impacted the entire universe. We don't know if Xandar's government was utilizing farm subsidies, all we know is that Thanos snapped to wipe out half the population because he was worried about resource consumption.

littlebro07 posted...

Looked it up and found this:

https://screenrant.com/infinity-war-thanos-snap-animals-plants-killed/

Feige is a sadistic bastard

Half the plants gone just randomly happened by luck that not even a single blade of grass from the wakanda battlefield died that day what a fucking sack of shit.

The economy? No

The ecology? Yes

I cant imagine even half a family or company or government being halved, having years to somehow recover then the other half comes back.

And the is the entire universe....