A Boring Dystopia

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I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/24230552

Just capitalism doing its thing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/02/03/medics-apologise-suggesting-brain-dead-women-could-used-surrogate/

https://archive.ph/NFeMU

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[–] prembil 10 points 5 days ago

Nice try Hideo Kojima. You won't be making the death stranding reality!

[–] bitjunkie 7 points 4 days ago

Gotta get that birthrate back up somehow, and having an equitable society obviously isn't an option

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Literally the plot of Shin Sekai Yori (2008).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Oh hey capitalism wants to create the Daemonculaba.

[–] dance_ninja 8 points 5 days ago

Oh, Brave New World!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

id love to keep it "boring"

the "interesting" parts of a dystopia arent usually very healthy for us...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

One step closer to a Brave New World

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

This has very little to do with what our actual dystopia will do. I mean, I thought that this was by someone who was probably thinking of the families that lost someone to a coma and had been looking for grandchildren, but no, they are seriously suggesting this simply because of its utility.. Even so, all hail the new future tech bro hivemind and all, but still, not very likely. If it is something that is capable of being truly considered by societies, it will also be capable of considering worse things over it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (7 children)

This is seriously fucked up, but I don't get the capitalism part of it?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I honestly don't see a problem with that, as long as the woman gave her consent while she was of sound mind. Surrogate pregnancy is already a fairly common thing; this is just extending it to after one is brain-dead.

Obviously if it's done nonconsensually that's an entirely different matter, and is a horrifying idea (imagine miraculously waking up from an 8 month coma only to find you're pregnant with someone else's child).