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- All workers must be paid a living wage for their labor.
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We truly live in a boring dystopia
Shit, how can we turn this into an interesting dystopia?
The Mad Max people had it right, there should be way more mohawks and scrap metal body armor going around.
Gimme a flame throwing guitarist chained to the hood!
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Be the change you wish to see in the world.
The future awaits...
With a guillotine
But that leads to utopia!
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It is true: "Every utopia starts with the horrible story about how it came from a dystopia." Or something along those lines.
I dunno if I’d call France a utopia
They removed the guillotine too soon.
The trick is it should never be removed: There will ALWAYS be greedy fucks that don't care about others.
Yeah. They definitely got a little guillotine-happy towards the end there. They should have just put it away in the back room, and taken it out on parade for special occasions. As a reminder.
Make it so any position of power has a functioning guillotine right over their desk
They might get the picture if you rigged a haphazardly trained Ai camera to it:
"Hey any excessive scratching under the desk might be perceived as under the table bribes or other corruption behavior and release the guillotine. You've been warned."
Somehow that sounds worse, like the proverb/curse"may you live in interesting times"
"May you live in interesting times" is a double-bladed weapon. Unless you plan on dying shortly.
Nukes?
Make money bets about what will be the next most depressing news.
start sending off children to fight to the death
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The idea is that we live in a dystopia but it’s not even interesting like depicted in many books. But also a joke about how bored they would have been
All good it’s just a reference you missed. Hardly a crime lol
Sorry I know somebody already kinda explained it but I'd like to weigh in on the concept. :)
All the cautionary sci-fi warned us dystopia would involve nanotech and cyber arms and robot overlords, flying cars, climate wars, mind-jacking hackers, a realistic meta-universe underlying our reality, militarized corporations, pizza delivery being one of the most dangerous jobs in America...
It seemed insane and over the top.
...Our reality is a "boring dystopia" because we have a lot of those hallmarks of that dystopian worldbuilding, but most advancements in technology aren't even interesting, mainly because they're immediately used to let bosses and corpos fill our lives with more dull drudgery and economic downslide.
...Tech is evolving rapidly even though societal advancement as a whole has perceptually stagnated.
It's like living in 2008 forever, but there's electric cars now, and computers read your emotions to sell your identity to advertisers and rat you out to your boss.
Computers are faster than ever but they're used to consume the energy of a small country to generate make-believe speculative gambling currency or ugly monkey bitmaps, and now threaten creatives' livlihoods or automate the scam industry.
It all boils down to it being harder to make a living and the rich keep adding zeroes to their net worths.
Our world is controlled by people so stupidly evil they make four-color comic-book villains look nuanced. And we don't even get cool synthwave neon streets or rag-tag resistance cells who (effectively) fight back.
I think we all hoped that by the time it got that bad, we'd have some good folks with nano-augments or "L337 H4X1NG $k!115"...but we're repeatedly crushed to the sound of our coworkers' moaning "It is what it is. Ya do what you gotta do." And we go back to work.
"It is what it is" can go die in a fire.
I'd sure be bored if I couldn't sing along to songs while alone in a vehicle.
No worries, I was just riffing off of your statement. I meant no offense