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This feels like nitpicking. Idiocracy was never supposed to be accurate; the important part is how it seems less ridiculous as time goes on. The primary point

This feels like nitpicking. Idiocracy was never supposed to be accurate; the important part is how it seems less ridiculous as time goes on. The primary point of idiocracy was to imagine a world where people were acting in increasingly stupid ways over time. The source of this is irrelevant. In reality, it turned out that the source of the stupidity was an increasingly poor education system, increasing inequality, and carefully designed injection of addictive technologies and medicines into the general populace. Where idiocracy really failed in its predictions was in the development of AI, as that appears to increasingly substitute for lack of common understanding. Also all of this only really holds for the US and maybe the UK.

jMyles 7mo ago
> The primary point of idiocracy was to imagine a world where people were acting in increasingly stupid ways over time. ...and in doing so, it depicts a world that is not at all reminiscent of the one in which we live. The white house is not occupied by idiots, but by thieves and murders and sexual predators. The American landscape is not a Brawndo-dustbowl, but a highly profitable, productive, and delicious-but-toxic bounty of subsidized factory farms, stemming not from a misunderstanding of botany, but a misapplication of that understanding. The same is true of the medical industry, the justice system - literally every institution portrayed in the entire film, with the possible exception of waste disposal / the trash avalanche.