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It's Groundhog Day, but everyone's experiencing the loop. What are some daily patterns that would begin to emerge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If everyone is reliving the same day over and over again most people can go a day without eating with some mild discomfort, pretty much all agriculture, grocery, etc would become luxury and less needed or used.

All travel would become short distance you can't spend 24hrs traveling to the other side of the planet just to get reset back home. Markets would go into stasis and stay closed there's no interest earned over 0 days, which means most people would stop working as most jobs wouldn't be necessary if everything just resets after 24 hours, you can't build or destroy anything permanent.

I think most people would panic or just vacation for a few months worth of repeated days before organizing around new myths and practices and traditions around what caused it and how to change it back.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

pretty much all agriculture, grocery, etc would become luxury and less needed or used.

But if everything is reset every day, you still have the same stock of food available every day, and it never depletes (beyond the depletion that happens in 1 day, but that gets reset quickly). And any money made from selling food is also not kept. I can't imagine food sellers would be bothered to try enforce their prices when profits etc don't matter. Maybe food just becomes free. If we're optimistic, people might prioritise getting food to people who are already starving, since the people who are well-fed won't be too bothered by going a day without food.