I see that a lot has already been said on the matter. I must confess that, without profit incentives, my mind immediately conjured up Orwellian scenarios whereby the threat from a powerful head of state is real and democracy is dead.

A bureaucracy of submissives makes up the population; all living under the fearsome dictates of a Machiavellian government. Thatcherism on steroids: put up and shut up. On one hand, no more protests and a total eradication of snowflakes---bringing about total cooperation in states of emergency, which would be the only positive under duress.

But a dystopia could be, in itself, a strong incentive for mass suicide. The reward centres of our brains need to be stimulated, otherwise, there is no point.