We use distant black holes to know the position of Earth in space. If we invented GPS and didn’t use them to confirm our position, GPS would be inaccurate and unusable because we could not tell the precise positioning of Earth even though we’d know the relationship between your car and a satellite.

We are a social species, and we have always prevailed through cooperation. Caring for our sick. Raising children we didn't sire or birth because they were part of our village or extended family. We are not breeders and predators, we are communicators and survivors. We evolved to UNITE.

Also, when just the right storm hits Tampa or Miami and sets off an insurance bomb, any wealth that can flee will do so, decimating Florida's sales-tax-only revenues and perhaps eventually leading to a functional collapse of the state government as a meaningful entity.

(to be clear, I’m talking about having-less-babies population shrinkage, not gulags-n-genocide shrinkage)

pocketscion.com is a purchasable electronic version of this (can produce sounds itself, but also output MIDI signals)

My version of this is “carrot farming”. I think there’d be a quiet dignity in growing orange roots