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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 3569917" data-attributes="member: 3649">Using our normal world as a starting base and everyone having those powers... whew.The economy drops into the toilet for a time because all of a sudden there is no need for gasoline anymore; people just fly everywhere they want to go, and much faster than in a car (personal protection for inclement weather follows shortly). All the money that goes into highway construction and maintence now goes elsewhere. Pollution starts to clear up. The only need for vehicles is for people who can't be trusted to fly on their own, or who are incapable of it; it's probably carried by four or six people who can, since everyone is pretty darn strong (thought I'm assuming age and maturity has something to do with that).Airlines still exist because they're still vastly faster than 200 mph, and you can sleep on the flight. And they can carry a lot more cargo. Most smaller types of planes vanish, though. Insurance companies have a major crisis and this affects the economy as well; not many people need auto insurance anymore and personal liability also goes out the window when people can't get hurt easily. Insurance costs go down for businesses like construction and other highly hazardous jobs. We'll assume that with the strength and toughness comes a highly increased resistance to disease. Health care costs plumet, hospitals as we know them go out of business; another economic crisis as the monolithic health care industry contracts severely. Births and a handfull of other things are the only things you need a doctor for, and they're more like nurses, actually.Immigration becomes almost impossible to enforce. Some countries are overwhelmed by massive waves of people, while a handful of countries are almost emptied. Predictably, wars start. Similarly, smuggling becomes a breeze.Revolutions, coupes and brush wars sweep the globe as previously helpless peoples find themselves on par with their oppressors for the first time ever. The gun no longer is the equalizer it is now: everyone has become a gun. Two thirds of the world becomes a war zone for about 20 years until new nations start to form, as no-one is now bounded by borders or physical barriers or economic inability to travel. People can now live and farm in places they could never economically reach and exploit before. The simple basic hardship of living in the more extreme climates and regions has been removed. All you'll need in some places is a person with rain-making and plant-shaping abilities. Those people become like gods in many, many places around the globe. The numbers of people whose wild-card power is to live underwater disappear into the vastness of the oceans. We hear from them occassionally. We wonder very, very much what they're doing down there....It probably takes, oh, 50-60 years for the various economic crisises to pass and for a new global economic model to stabilize. Same for the various societal changes.</blockquote>

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