@tyga

This raises an interesting thought. I think one of the more interesting second-order effects of "what if red wins?" and a massive chunk of the population just dies off. My first thought was, "could modern civilization survive a 20-30+% population collapse overnight?" and I would imagine that it's a "maybe" with the condition that it really depends on what those 20-30% were doing. But this raises a good counterpoint, which is: "What if modern society actually depends on most people to be red?" This fundamentally changes the equation. The operator between parties in this scenario would be "selfish-cooperation." More of a "I cooperate with others, not because everyone has the same interests and is looking out for each other, unconditionally, but others have something I value, and I have something others value." All are red to varying degrees, i.e. everyone is "selfish", but have an incentive to work together.

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