LightningStrikes posted...
Of course in the real world living standards do increase following mass death, most famously after the Black Death.
Bad causation vs correlation. Eliminating black death by killing 50% of the population can definitely make sense as an overall improvement.
That doesn't apply to the snap. It's all downside.
Also realistically, there's no reason the 50% would include Earth. There's quadrillions of people across the universe, chances half of the quadrillion who survive does not include the mere 7 billion of Earth. It would much more likely be a total wipeout.