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I wonder how 1984 world would deal with resource depletion.
by spiritplumber 5y ago
I wonder how 1984 world would deal with resource depletion.
- XorNot 5y agoProbably pretty well: the suffering and dominance is the point. War machines destroy excess production, then people would be tasked with harvesting the war machines. The system doesn't care if anyone is happy or fulfills their dreams - it's goal is explicitly the opposite. As long as the sun burns, it continues.
- scoopertrooper 5y agoYes, curiously enough resource depletion could be a benefit to Ingsoc for exactly the reasons you mentioned. However, if resource depletion (or abundance) were uneven, then it could risk the strategic imbalance between the powers. One might wonder if one of the reasons that they routinely switched alliances was to send each other aid to prop up the strategic balance during periods of famine.