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Your may be talking about more strict immigration policies but the subject here is "societal collapse" and population reduction and I was pointing out a possibility.
A probable outcome would be that another society takes over the one disappearing.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140402095656.h...
https://www.coffeeandhealth.org/2013/01/coffee-consumption-a...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coffee-liver-cirrh...
This.
You're litterally using a personal computer with at least personal data on it, passwords in a password manager, passwords in your browsers, website account sessions (!) all on your drives and folders. Everything accessible by ALL programs you execute.
The more info Javascript has and therefore the server, the more attack vectors open up to just inject code into your browser and leverage code execution on host (recent CVE on firefox and Chrome !).
Or into your slack electron's chrome. Or any spyware app.
All your keystrokes accessible also !
Consider using a virtual machine or container to isolate the apps from your data so that they can't access it. If needed, mount a folder between host and guest for purpose-only sharing.
Or at least think about it or other measures.
Some services even refuse to serve if one changes the UA, which is only one tracking capability. Though a blank or custom UA is worse, everyone should spoof the one in the onion browser.
User agent switch is currently "not available" on android Firefox.
Being positive on a covid test doesn't mean you'll get sick.
With 2FA instead, the password is less valuable than the 2FA secret token and its backup on different device to not get locked out.
I've already written a rant about it before and I don't have the energy to repeat myself, but do not fool yourself into thinking switching from excel to Alteryx is doing yourself any favors. You're just trading one monster for another.
Save yourself a huge amount of money, not to mention your sanity and just take the time to learn some Python, Julia, literally anything else to get the same results faster, more reliably, and not be locked into that noveau Oracle-esque nightmare.