The global economy is going to collapse, either way. You'd think the ever-so-brilliant kleptocrat class, being more addicted to greed than a crack baby nursed on meth-laced whiskey bottles would have predicted this and figured out some other way to share a little, rather than invest so heavily into spy apparatus and shock collars. You'd think they already have bunkers on Mars, fully stocked with Soylent Green, Remy, sex slaves and blow or something, the way they're behaving.