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The existence of billionaires is a policy failure (europe.pub)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/workreform@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've played fallout for more than 2 decades. How the fuck are we diving face first into every sci-fi dystopia at the same time? Like, there's hints of star wars, dune, fallout, 1984, the outer worlds, hunger games, Idiocracy etc. I'm hoping cyberpunk 2077 shows up and gives a sliver of a chance.

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Because those things were based on the real world and we are very bad at learning from the ever-growing list of mistakes we can’t stop making.

    Cyberpunk 2077 is not a good world and does not have a good ending. That world is a horrid, capitalist dystopia. Maybe you should watch Edgerunners if you still can’t figure it out from the game.

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The point was that as bad as cyberpunk's future is, I'm fairly certain ours will be worse in 52 years. At least in their timeline there's a resistance.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    I suppose so? But there are things we can do right now that give us far more than a sliver of a chance. Unfortunately those things are “boring” and not as fashionable, like doing actual research and trusting real experts so it’s rough out there.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    The main reason is because people are stupid and get taken advantage of accordingly.

    Every time you saw a moron say "they're a business and they need to make money!" you saw someone lowering their standards to make a rich person richer.

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