We live in a dystopia, but not one of those sci-fi dystopias that are at least interesting. Instead we have a boring dystopia where companies just try to suck as much money out of us as possible.
Please deposit your hard earned cash for these useless home products that are built to fail in 1-3 years so you have to purchase them again on a Black Friday a few years from now.
Ever notice how every dystopian story has all of society doing dystopian shit, but there’s always a Bernard Marx or a Guy Montag or a Winston Smith or a Neo that are the only ones who realize or do anything about it? But the fact that they don’t actively participate doesn’t make it any less of a dystopia
If you got a way for americans to give large amounts of money to chinese and indian people without that being exchanged for good and services I’m all ears. For now, their quality of life is significantly improved compared to doing subsistence farming.
yeah I don’t even know how you’d start to gather data on the QOL of subsistence farming vs kids working 12 hour days sewing stuffed animals and shoes
but even if your assertion were true, a small QOL bump for a group of people an order of magnitude larger than another group with a huge QOL bump is like the basis for any dystopian story of the last 30+ years
You don’t have to spend an ever-increasing portion of your income on food, shelter, and transportation. And you don’t have to prioritize pointless work and attempt to monetize your hobbies. All the people who do shop on Black Friday will have lots of leftover cardboard boxes for the rest of us to die in.
Yeah until this trend of hyper-capitalism inevitably sends us into an actual dystopian world where only people with 6 figures in their bank account can survive while the rest are left behind to perish.
By every conceivable metric life is better right now than it ever has been in an all of human history.
But sure boring dystopia because ads are getting delivered to you differently during your football game you watch on your internet connected tv from your couch in the air conditioning
Yes I’m sure all the people globally who aren’t living in extreme poverty anymore with rock bottom literacy rates and sky high infant mortality rates are super bummed out they aren’t as fulfilled as when they were subsistence farming
We live in a dystopia, but not one of those sci-fi dystopias that are at least interesting. Instead we have a boring dystopia where companies just try to suck as much money out of us as possible.
Welcome to Capitalism
Yes under communism there isn’t a chance of a dystopia /s
Y’all are insane lol.
Its ads during a football game I think we will be okay
Please deposit your hard earned cash for these useless home products that are built to fail in 1-3 years so you have to purchase them again on a Black Friday a few years from now.
You don’t have to shop on Black Friday or spend huge amounts of money on gifts. The dystopia you’re thinking of is self made.
Ever notice how every dystopian story has all of society doing dystopian shit, but there’s always a Bernard Marx or a Guy Montag or a Winston Smith or a Neo that are the only ones who realize or do anything about it? But the fact that they don’t actively participate doesn’t make it any less of a dystopia
People lacking the self control to avoid overspending on things they don’t need isn’t dystopia.
I dunno, billions of chinese/indians laboring to keep the quality of life up for a hundred million americans seems like great suffering to me
If you got a way for americans to give large amounts of money to chinese and indian people without that being exchanged for good and services I’m all ears. For now, their quality of life is significantly improved compared to doing subsistence farming.
yeah I don’t even know how you’d start to gather data on the QOL of subsistence farming vs kids working 12 hour days sewing stuffed animals and shoes
but even if your assertion were true, a small QOL bump for a group of people an order of magnitude larger than another group with a huge QOL bump is like the basis for any dystopian story of the last 30+ years
No, it’s all the corporations fault that I’m fat and waste all my money on worthless consumer goods
You don’t have to spend an ever-increasing portion of your income on food, shelter, and transportation. And you don’t have to prioritize pointless work and attempt to monetize your hobbies. All the people who do shop on Black Friday will have lots of leftover cardboard boxes for the rest of us to die in.
Most people don’t buy food shelter and transportation on Amazon Black Friday
Not really. Not when it’s shoved in your face everywhere you go.
You still don’t have to do it. It doesn’t matter how much someone tries to get you to do something. If you don’t want to do it just… don’t do it
Compared to how humans have lived for all the history of the world, including many today, this “dystopia” we live in is actually pretty great
best dystopia we’ve ever seen…so far
Yeah until this trend of hyper-capitalism inevitably sends us into an actual dystopian world where only people with 6 figures in their bank account can survive while the rest are left behind to perish.
Melodramatic as fuck. You’re richer and better off than any other average person in the history of the planet.
r/ABoringDystopia
Ehhh WFH jobs, medicine, technology advancements, weed quality/ legalization all pretty nice
The more I think about it Idiocracy was really a film predicting the future not a satirical comedy.
By every conceivable metric life is better right now than it ever has been in an all of human history.
But sure boring dystopia because ads are getting delivered to you differently during your football game you watch on your internet connected tv from your couch in the air conditioning
I doubt people are as happy or fulfilled nowadays though
Physical and mental health are declining but at least people can sit on the couch and eat fake food and buy products!
Yes I’m sure all the people globally who aren’t living in extreme poverty anymore with rock bottom literacy rates and sky high infant mortality rates are super bummed out they aren’t as fulfilled as when they were subsistence farming
r/aboringdystopia
r/aboringdystopia
I mean, that isn’t too far off from A Brave New World.