Raynefalle t1_ixlsxtg wrote
Reply to comment by Mad_Moodin in [WP] Overnight, everyone in the world has swapped bodies and you wake up as a different person in a different country by Possible-Law9651
Of all services most likely. If you swapped bodies with a stranger you have no idea what they even do for work for at least most of the first day. So the entire population wouldn't show up for work.
Then once people figure out what happened it'll be a toss up over 1) how to get back home in your new body, 2) wait until some scientists fix it, or 3) living life as this new person. Most people would not choose 3 I don't imagine, and even those that give it a go wouldn't have any of the skills/experience to actually do the new persons job.
I imagine most people would try to find their loved ones and wait till see how we switch back.
Mad_Moodin t1_ixlty0c wrote
Most likely you'd basically have people work what they can with an extremely strong ghetto building.
1/7 of the people will be Chinese, 1/7 will be Indian.
Every city will have thousands of them who will find together.
The Northern and Western Europeans and the North Americans would likely also be a huge cluster as they'd make for another 1/7 and should be able to communicate quite well in English.
Aviability of common language will be a massive advantage. Many Indians might work together with the Europeans and Americans essentially.
The biggest thing will be, where will people want to go. If you are from a very poor region and you wake up in a rich region, will you be ready to leave. Who will make you leave? There will likely be fewer of the people from that region there than from poor regions.
Due to the complete breakdown of governments you might have completely new countries forming and a shuffling of where wealth is concentrated.
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