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IIRC this is a background premise in William Gibson’s The Peripheral. Most jobs are either for a tech company, or at a Walmart-esque store that has eaten all ot
by keiferski 1y ago
IIRC this is a background premise in William Gibson’s The Peripheral. Most jobs are either for a tech company, or at a Walmart-esque store that has eaten all other retail.
- nicce 1y agoI haven’t read the book, and I should. The series was really good. Too bad they cancelled it for being too expensive.
- an0malous 1y agoPeople don’t cancel things because they’re expensive, costs are a known and predictable quantity. They cancel things because they don’t make enough to justify the costs.
- apocalyptic0n3 1y agoIn this case, it actually was due to unknown and unpredictable costs. They were about to start production on S2 when the strikes hit. They delays spiked the costs of an already expensive show (S1 cost an estimated $175M) which made it less tenable for Amazon. This happened to quite a few shows during the pandemic and during the strikes – renewed because it made financial sense, then pandemic/strike spiked the cost, and then they canceled the renewal.
- keiferski 1y agoI liked the first half of the series, but it gradually became a generic superhero show. The book, however, is excellent- definitely recommend.
- lagniappe 1y agoOr you end up as one of the hired goons of Corbell Pickett, one of the greatest bad guys of all time (only slightly below Clarence Boddicker).
- A_D_E_P_T 1y agoThat book was weirdly prescient. IIRC Gibson himself noted that he was too on-the-nose with The Jackpot, which has made it very difficult to write the sequels. Hyperstition is a real thing... if, that is, you're William Gibson.