I recently re-watched Downsizing on Netflix, starring Matt Damon. It didn’t do terribly well at the box office (okay, it totally bombed), but I loved it the first time I saw it. For those of you who haven’t, the basic premise was that a Norwegian scientist found a way to safely shrink humanity into a mere 12 inches. The scientist, his wife and a few other brave volunteers proceeded to shrink themselves to become the first small community in the world.

Being small helped with consumption of the world’s finite resources, and literally a much smaller carbon footprint. Most importantly though, it meant you could live large.

For the Safraneks (Husband and wife duo of Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig, it meant a life of luxury. In the normal world, they would have just paid off their student debts, and after liquidating all of their assets, have a net