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More dystopian stories to distract us from the real dystopia swallowing us - dwindling health care , 16 hr waits in the emergency room, rising copays while admi
by bawana 5y ago
More dystopian stories to distract us from the real dystopia swallowing us - dwindling health care , 16 hr waits in the emergency room, rising copays while administrators whose work consists of emails and making short sighted decisions continue to take home fat paychecks
- readingnonsense 5y agobread and circuses
- jerry1979 5y agoNot surprising that capitalism commodifies capitalism anxiety.
- spacehome 5y agoOur healthcare system has very little to do with capitalism or free markets.
- javajosh 5y agoDon't forget about the false sense of security science fiction gives us about our civilizations ability to survive calamity, or spread beyond earth. And also the false sense of power super-spy fiction gives us over government security forces (and likewise a false sense of how gov sec forces function). I think both have a real distorting effect on our intuitions about the world.
- esturk 5y agoMaybe the distraction is voluntary because for higher cognitive individuals, like many here, they realize there's nothing they can do about it.
- Wiseacre 5y agoHow is that? Strikes and collective action actually do work.
- CRConrad 5y ago> More dystopian stories to distract us from the real dystopia swallowing us Distract from -- or remind of / allude to?