A Boring Dystopia

9791 readers

984 users here now

Pictures, Videos, Articles showing just how boring it is to live in a dystopic society, or with signs of a dystopic society.

Rules (Subject to Change)

--Be a Decent Human Being

--Posting news articles: include the source name and exact title from article in your post title

--If a picture is just a screenshot of an article, link the article

--If a video's content isn't clear from title, write a short summary so people know what it's about.

--Posts must have something to do with the topic

--Zero tolerance for Racism/Sexism/Ableism/etc.

--No NSFW content

--Abide by the rules of lemmy.world

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

givesomefucks

1097

There's no money for education and health care but they'll always find some for war. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by STRIKINGdebate2 to c/aboringdystopia

90 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still resources that could be spent towards something else, something ultimately more productive.

Building a house takes a lot of work, so why spend that effort into building a bomb that destroys many such houses, instead? What does this achieve for humanity?

[–] roofuskit 11 points 1 year ago

Because building houses lowers the value of all the real estate the wealthy already own.