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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn’t this exactly the premise for some of the Vaults in Fallout? Social experiments that lead to societal issues?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's a few that come close. This situation is about as bad as the more milquetoast vault outcomes: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_known_Vaults

I'd say it's pretty middling once you remove bioweapons from the list for sake of realistic comparison. Pretty sure we don't have FEV yet.