At the risk of sounding extremely autistic, I remember the biggest sperging point during the peak of Endgame criticism on the broken world building was that the world seemingly went on just fine despite the fact that statistically speaking, 50% of experts and specialists in every subject are gone, and how it makes no sense that society didn’t completely collapse as a result. In that case I agree with them, it’s lazy and unrealistic. But if you specifically target all the useless, sub-IQ, talentless bugmen - I genuinely ask, what is there to lose? It’s not like the billions cramped in Delhi are doing important agriculture work no other person is willing to dirty their hands with. So, a bunch of call center scammers and slave labor factory workers? Oh no, not our cheap Temu and Shein consoomer garbage! Imagine the horror. If anything it would be a general net positive to get rid of those Chinese mass production factories of future landfill. The earth might actually heal.
