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This world is turning out less like the movie Idiocracy and more like the series Continuum. (lemm.ee)
submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts
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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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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly the world is much better than it was.

For instance, around 140 million people were killed in WWI and WWII.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's correct. It IS better than it was. And it's important to KEEP it that way. But in case you haven't noticed, world history is following pretty much the exact same path beat-for-beat that it did in the lead up to that war that cost 140 million lives.

It's not whether we are better off than we were in the past. It's a question of whether or not we're going to stay that way. Because the next world war might claim a billion or more. (exaggerating for effect of course)

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

the next world war might claim a billion or more

That’s still just 1 out of 8. You’d barely notice.

Edit: Doubling down on the downvotes. Here my proposition – an even split between China, India and the US. That leaves China and India at just over 1B each and the US to 12M, which is fair.