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In the episode “Fifteen Million Merits” the main character is fed ads on the walls of his bedroom and his eyes are tracked. If he wants the ads to stop and clos
by nojs 6y ago
In the episode “Fifteen Million Merits” the main character is fed ads on the walls of his bedroom and his eyes are tracked. If he wants the ads to stop and close his eyes in peace he has to pay a small fee each time.
- gfody 6y agothis would be after <attention token> has become the new fluid currency and you've gone deep into debt by paying more attention than you had
- waterhouse 6y agoWell, the economy in general didn't make much sense in that episode. The people "working hard just to get by" spend all day on these bicycle things that generate power, but thermodynamically there's no way they could be producing more than what it costs to feed them. Nor do I recall any sort of education or training for actual careers going on. And that's not something I can entirely ignore, when "how empty everyone's lives are" is relevant to the general plot. Maybe they could have substituted some kind of factory assembly work, although that might have raised questions of why it's not automated.