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Coulomb's Law doesn't apply.
Without currency there had be no civilization
Are you saying this is what you would change?
Because there were definitely civilizations without currency.
No quantum mechanics. Things have concrete properties even when no one's watching, and they can all be observed at the same time. The universe is complex but understandable.
Also, P=NP and π is 3.33 repeating, just for the lols.
Carbon is no longer an element and doesn't exist.
So no us and perhaps some really weird disruptions to the fusion chain in stars.
My rule is: "greed causes incurable ear loss"
Clarification: I didn't say 'hearing'; I said 'ear'.
Photons now have mass.
Wonder what would be the advantages if it has mass?
The universe would have collapsed back into itself shortly after the big bang, which would avoid a lot of suffering.
laughs and giggles?
Being bad or evil is literally bad for your health.
The better you act, the better your health - great teeth, good muscle, low fat, high fitness, good looks, and longevity (to a point), no addiction or mental health issues, selfless with no crazy ego. Ie Mother Teresa looks like a supermodel!
Health can fluctuate based on behavior but it always drops 3x faster than it improves. So if you fuck around on your wife, your teeth go bad, or you start balding etc. cheat on your taxes, or lie maliciously (excl. good lies like Santa) you start to get fat n ugly.
If you're a miserable prick who fires staff, scams people, bribes, hires children for sweatshops or harms people just to increase profit or boost share price you get cancer. But if you help those people then you may be cured provided you handle it really well and undo all the damage.
You attack someone, pedal harmful drugs or hoard unnecessary wealth, you go blind/deaf until you earn it back, more than once and it becomes permanent, each time after that you lose a limb for good.
You intentionally harm or kill someone via murder, drink driving, rape etc then it's game over via a slow, long, painful debilitating disease that's contagious to anyone you like or care about, ensuring you die alone.
To help identify the good/bad, your gut instincts are 10,000x more powerful and obvious to warn you of the dangers or benefits of each choice.
A disease that kills everyone a bad person knows, even if they don't do anything wrong, is a Bible level of justice.
How is "being bad" decided?
If it's decided internally ("bad" is what you believe is bad), then all the objectivists get a free pass for being assholes. Hitler is a supermodel, etc.
If it's decided externally (there's an universal definition of "bad"), how far into the future does it propagate? If I rescue from drowning someone who will genocide all the Dutch in the future, when do I go bald?
That said, beauty pageants would be much funnier, with trolley problems instead of talent competitions.
This is why this one wouldn't work in any meaningful way. Good and bad is a human creation subject to the individuals perception.
Mother Teresa looks like a supermodel
Mother Theresa was a monster who got off on the suffering of others.
That whatever species ends up dominating the earth with tools and technology branches out from bonobos instead.
Humans don't evolve, we bring noting to the table of life and dont want to share.
Positions of power are filled by people who are not interested in holding power.