This is a dreaded predicament. Dead weight. It’s like that Twilight Zone Episode with Burgess Meredith - Obsolete Man. It’s a death sentence, but without the beautifully ironic comeuppance.

One world, alright. One Third World, indivisible, with slavery and injustice for all - North and South united in misery - one in material misery, the other having sold its soul, living in existential misery.