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In the US? Worse, much worse. We'd have kings and queens at this point. The rich would make sure that their wealth always came back to them. People would probably have to test who their baby was before, probably a lot of adoptions and what have you. I could see parents suing the rich person if they didn't share their wealth, likely new laws would need to be enacted to insure the wealth isn't shared with anyone (and we know it'll pass because anything that hurts people always passes). I could even see a greater decline in birthrates. Who wants to carry a baby to term just to have it snatched away by the Walmart empire and leaving you with nothing but the scars? Or what if you happen to get a murderer who did heinous things?
Oh god, and debt would never, ever die. As soon as you're 18, they'd drop those same bills off, likely with interest. There would be no end to suffering, no peace at the end. You'll be in your 80's, still working to pay off debt that may be from two lifetimes ago. It would be harder for new artists as well. Just keep throwing Beyonce out there. Why get a new actor? Just keep putting the same guy in there, over and over.
Only thing I could see getting a little better is racism. Since you can't control who or what you come back as, kind of hard to hate brown people when you're just a flip of a coin away. They literally wouldn't be able to judge a book by its cover.
Suicides would skyrocket, too, and probably at a young age. Probably infant death would skyrocket, too. Imagine you have a kid with a birth defect or some other kind of lifelong condition. Why make them live a whole life dealing with that when you can just let them take a mulligan and reincarnate, hopefully under better conditions.
Get into an accident and lose the use of your legs or get paralyzed or something? Oh well. Better luck on your next play-through. Hit the reset button and try again.
Why? In a world where everyone is reincarnated, what value does life have? If you get jealous of someone, you can kill them and kill yourself. If you have no material wealth, you have nothing to lose.
The "value" is the ability to escape from the cycle and exist outside of this world. Self realization is the goal. And to be able to understand the concept on a level that can get a person out of here means repayment of karmic debt that is tied to many previous lives. So by starting to be a good person today maybe in only a few hundred more lives we can become liberated. It's not an easy game to beat.
It's said that when we die everything can be accessed, every second of our life so reading the "Tibetan Book of The Dead" ( the great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between) even once we will have a better chance of closing a better life on the path of liberation from suffering.
I had a hard time understanding/ believing any of these concepts. But every question I had seemed to have a reasonable answer
But we do choose the next life. It is far to complicated to explain here. There are many factors in the afterlife that cause bad choices to be made, karmic debt ( which is carried on from many past lives) for one.
We are also reborn on other planets and have all been each other's relatives in almost every combination possible.
We do remember our past lives but we are reborn into a body that barely functions. We can't control it in the sense that even a 4 year old can. Rather than that information of our previous life being discussed we forget about it while being presented with our new life and the realization that we are once again trapped in the cycle of birth and death.