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  • Keep the species alive.

    70m rich people to run humanity… they won’t be rich anymore, it’s all relative. Probably the first problem is going to be to organize self sufficient communities, search and rescue the isolated pockets of survivors.

    Many rich people tend to live near each other, but not too near, so some communities will be able to get started quickly.

    Basics of life, food, shelter, security, health. Probably a fair few doctors in the survivor group, so health is covered.

    Probably many can fly airplanes. A few might even be able the maintain their planes.

    Adventuring is an extremely rich person’s hobby, so there will be basic survival skills in the group.

    Food, like in many zombie scenarios, will last a few years before it becomes critical.

    In this scenario, we’re probably looking at a lot of learn skills in this group, because of their previous amount of leisure time, some of them have accrued lots of knowledge. That they can now apply. For those who have no basic skills, they will be forced to learn. Maybe not all 70 million will thrive, but enough. Society will continue. Humans will continue.

    As far as the survivors are concerned, they’re no longer rich, they’re in a labor poor environment, and they have to provide for themselves. So society will effectively reset.


  • I would be wildly optimistic, but very cautious.

    I’d want to see multi-year randomized control trials comparing the bioavailability of not only protein, but also vitamins and minerals from the synthetic meat and liver, to natural meat and liver.

    Assuming the RCTs show no issues, then I would happily move over.

    Modern meat products are on a spectrum as well, it’s not just having the meat, it’s what the meat ate before it became me that’s important. Grass-fed, versus grain fed for beef. Insect, and protein for chickens, grain fed for chickens etc. antibiotics, hormones being supplemented into the feed to improve yields.

    One massive problem the industry globally suffers from is overpromising. Just like multivitamins, which are very poorly bioavailable, and mostly peed out, they promise a lot but don’t deliver much.

    Factors I would look for:

    • can somebody sustain life eating only the synthetic meat for multiple years?
    • oxidative stress, and oxidation in the synthetic food?
    • The temptation to engineer sugar, and carbohydrates, directly into the meat to increase sales yields.

    Green sustainability:

    • can the synthetic meat be produced globally?
    • Will poor farmers in the middle of nowhere be improved or hurt by this? Will they have access to the synthetic meat?
    • in the event global logistics fail, like an a war, will moving over to synthetic meat severely hurt critical infrastructure and ability to feed populations?