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A Boring Dystopia
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Dystopia doesn't mean what you think it does. Hint: it is not existence of poor people. It doesn't have anything to do with poor people at all.
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my point is that poor does not automatically imply dystopian and therefor ~~your~~ a suggestion to the contrary (choose between "poor" and "not dystopian") is not true, as can be seen in this handy matrix
poverty is attribute that can be present in dystopia, but it is not a necessity.
in most major dystopias in popular culture (1984, Fahrenheit 451, blade runner, logan's run) the poverty is not the defining factor.
and on the opposite side, people can be poor, struggling through hardships, but still be looking for a bright future instead of feeling oppressed or dystopian.
as can be seen in scifi colonization stories or in real life communities in poor countries. despite lacking the wealth of the top 10% of western population, without our mortgages or antidepressants (or maybe just because of that), they can be much happier.
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yeah, i missed that part.