Avengers Endgame: 10 Unexpected Consequences To Reversing The Snap

With any world-changing event, the national and global infrastructure and resources that manage the population shrinks to accommodate a drastically smaller population.

Look at what happened after each world war. 75-80 million people died in World War II. It took Western Europe fifteen years to recover, including the recovery of the birth rate and the working population and hits on education, nutrition and production.

Now, the world population as of 2018 was around 7.6 billion. That’s 3.8 billion people dead in Thanos’ snap, or over forty times as many as died in World War II. Whole industries would lose half the demand for their services and half the staff that provided them: thousands of businesses would shut down.

It gets worse. The world’s financial institutions rely on equilibrium to operate. Let’s say ABC Insurance loses half its customers; that’s a drastic drop in revenue, and the customers who are left are certain to be making more claims, so suddenly more money is going out than coming in. Well, most financial institutions would be in that same sinking boat, with no one in a position to bail them out.

And after five years, with the global economy shrunk to the size of a walnut but beginning to show signs of adjusting to the new normal, those 3.8 billion people suddenly reappear. In a single day, the demand for goods and services rockets back to 2018 levels... but with a 2023 economy left to deal with it.

These are the conditions for societal collapse and worldwide poverty.