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This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum. (lemm.ee)
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In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”.

Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.

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[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

  • unqualified populist US president
  • canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
  • subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
  • catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy

[–] xapr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you have a link? I don't think I'm finding the right Infinite Jest.