Avengers: Endconomics

[BeBMan]

Thanos has alway been furious about the Avengers' ultra high blood level of Midi-chlorians.

[Jon Miller]

My own view is that Earth can easily support at least the current population and near term estimated peak population at roughly an American middle class lifestyle. It requires some changes in consumption and agriculture. Basically eating perennial/tree crops instead of annuals and animals solves most of the worlds problems.

Spot on.

JM

[spambot]

I haven't seen Avengers: End Game yet, so no worry about spoilers. Plan to see it next week.

Thanos is an idiot. If you want to reduce consumption you don't randomly kill half the universe. You kill the rich. The rich consume more than the poor, often many many times more than the poor. You can reduce the loss of life (and greatly increase the loss of horrible people) by dissolving the rich rather than random people. As a benefit, the Avengers are mostly rich folk and so the whole End Game (which I assume the Avengers thwart Thanos) wouldn't have happened. I lost all respect for Thanos. Most likely he's a corporate shill trying to undermine the environmental movement by making it look like an idiotic death panel. It's almost enough to make me believe that Marvel may just be in it for the billions of box office dollars and not really promoting environmental policies at all!

If you kill the current 1% richest people, you'll just get a new class of rich people who engage in lavish consumption supported by the labors of the rest of society.

Also the Avengers are idiots. Once they learned Thanos wanted to wish half of the beings in the universe out of existence, they should have just created a huge number of AIs (trivial for Iron Man) in virtual worlds ... so many that statistically speaking, no other group of living beings would have had much risk to have anyone disolvved. Make the AI so they all dream of being freed from their existence by an idiot environmentalist death panel and it's a win/win for everyone.

The statistically likely outcome is that about half of all organic beings and about half of all AI's get killed. Or maybe he just kills living beings and leaves AI's alive, because the AI's are more resource efficient.

[Aeson]

Thanos’ plan was always doomed to being a temporary stopgap. The 1/2 of the population left would just grow back to 100% and beyond rather quickly.

By rich I mean working the way down the consumption ladder till you’ve reached 50% total consumption. I’m not sure what % of population that ends up being exactly, but it will be less than 50%, so requires less killing to achieve the desired effect. Eventually you’ll be back to 100% consumption either way, but you kill fewer beings. And you kill most, if not all, the Avengers. And you kill a much higher percentage of *******s.

Maybe even better would be to weight it by population density and environmental destruction. Instead of killing 50% of the ewoks who are living in harmony with nature you kill 100% of the storm troopers who are destroying whole worlds.

You're right about the AI, I goofed on that.

[seIf biased]

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[BeBMan]

I think Thanos is largely misunderstood. All the moaning about losing half the universe's life - it was his campaign promise!