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There is just a deep deep existential sadness in the question itself. The proximity of a better more just world is sometimes revealed in the simplest things. Th

There is just a deep deep existential sadness in the question itself. The proximity of a better more just world is sometimes revealed in the simplest things. There is a contradiction at the tip of everyone's tongues, hidden in our language and moral assumptions. Something has to happen. I can't imagine anyone believes there will be CocaCola and McDonalds on Mars.

asynchronous 3y ago
For a glimpse as to what this would look like, The Outer Worlds does a decent job showcasing exactly that situation.
- xerox13ster 3y ago
  Too many people shit on the brevity of this game, but it has an EXTREMELY SALIENT POINT and it beats you over the head with it. We are living in the Outer Worlds and Jeffrey Bezos literally wants to build Spacer's Choice. Elon would be MSI, and I'd peg Richard Bronson as UDL. They all want to be on the Halcyon Board. But we don't have to get off-planet to see these effects. Just look at rural decay and the clawing of wealth back to "Byzantium". You see rural areas and even suburbs falling apart because the Cities cannot pay for them, yet the Cities rely on the exploitation of the rural environment to survive. Without investment into the environment and participation in nature, colonies and civilizations collapse. The entire game is an allegory for American development and exploitation. I played this game, then one of my best friends got a job offer to be a Rocket/Computer Scientist for Bezos making $105k/yr (which is just next-level insulting considering the domain and her level of skill). It has been horrifying to watch her mind twist from a leftist hippie into that of a conservative bootlicker. She now sounds like someone in Edgewater, bragging about being overworked. Believing she will some day go live in Byzantium.

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There is just a deep deep existential sadness in the question itself. The proximity of a better more just world is sometimes revealed in the simplest things. Th

by beepbooptheory 3y ago

asynchronous 3y ago
For a glimpse as to what this would look like, The Outer Worlds does a decent job showcasing exactly that situation.
- xerox13ster 3y ago
  Too many people shit on the brevity of this game, but it has an EXTREMELY SALIENT POINT and it beats you over the head with it. We are living in the Outer Worlds and Jeffrey Bezos literally wants to build Spacer's Choice. Elon would be MSI, and I'd peg Richard Bronson as UDL. They all want to be on the Halcyon Board. But we don't have to get off-planet to see these effects. Just look at rural decay and the clawing of wealth back to "Byzantium". You see rural areas and even suburbs falling apart because the Cities cannot pay for them, yet the Cities rely on the exploitation of the rural environment to survive. Without investment into the environment and participation in nature, colonies and civilizations collapse. The entire game is an allegory for American development and exploitation. I played this game, then one of my best friends got a job offer to be a Rocket/Computer Scientist for Bezos making $105k/yr (which is just next-level insulting considering the domain and her level of skill). It has been horrifying to watch her mind twist from a leftist hippie into that of a conservative bootlicker. She now sounds like someone in Edgewater, bragging about being overworked. Believing she will some day go live in Byzantium.