So why is the world a shit hole in Blade Runner despite having never tiring work slaves?
So why is the world a shit hole in Blade Runner despite having never tiring work slaves?
So why is the world a shit hole in Blade Runner despite having never tiring work slaves?
Because its post-nuclear war. Its why everybody rocks lead codpieces to keep from going "special".
>Because its post-nuclear war
OP you retarded nagger how can you miss this plus the environmental catastrophe
The same reason why the real world is going to shit, in fact, that exact same world, despite having more advanced technology, that supposedly makes lives easier, than before.
>The same reason why the real world is going to shit
You think the real world is going to shit? Why do you think that?
>that supposedly makes lives easier, than before.
Happiness levels are lower, social class gaps are greater. People are poorer. People are working more and making less, and are more stressed and anxious. Suicide rates and drug use rates are higher as well. That said, it doesn't apply to every nation, but most are on that train. The point is that technology has advanced a lot, and we have a lot of new inventions to make life easier, yet the life of most people isn't better than the life most people had 60 years ago.
>Happiness levels are lower, social class gaps are greater. People are poorer. People are working more and making less, and are more stressed and anxious. Suicide rates and drug use rates are higher as well.
You live in the most abundant and prosperous time in history.
>yet the life of most people isn't better than the life most people had 60 years ago.
Why do you think that?
In the most abundant and prosperous time in history for some, but not for the mayority it seems. I'm just stating the numbers, and not thinking beyond the most obvious of the conclusions, that people seems to be unhappier and having less quality of life than before. I don't have a theory on why people are poorer, unhappier and sicker than before in the most prosperous of times. I'm just living my life. The cyberpunk genre asks those questions.
> I'm just stating the numbers,
And what numbers are those?
> don't have a theory on why people are poorer, unhappier and sicker than before in the most prosperous of times.
You assume this is true, but you can you prove it?
The most appalling part of all seems to be this:
>and sicker than before
Just to clarify. Are you saying people are 'sicker' today, then they were 60 years ago?
>You live in the most abundant and prosperous time in history.
Yes but objectively - you can look up any survey or look at measures like suicides, panic attacks etc. - people are not happier. That is his point, although he is undermining it by talking about things getting worse. They're just always the same. He traps himself by trying to attribute it to things like 'getting poorer'. But of course you can be totally broke and live like a king today with the internet. It's rather that material conditions don't determine happiness, expectations and attitude do. And those are set by innate human nature and culture. It's up to you to decide whether a culture of being satisfied will ever emerge and sustain itself. It hasn't happened for 100k years since it's so antithetical to the life drive
Have you not been paying attention? Don't go getting all black pilled but you're in for a rude awakening. I have kids and everything is getting completely out of control.
I see.
Based on your experience you think that all of this
is true?
For the most part yeah and even if he was somehow wrong they are trying their hardest to make it worse. In Britain random small villages are getting huge housing projects built solely for migrants for free as their own vets starve on the streets. In the US we were told we couldn't afford a few billion for border security yet we send 48b to Ukraine, not to mention printing like 20 years worth of money in less than 1 year and pretending it will be fine. Also you have every big Corp on boards who talk about buying up assets to "improve" the lives of people so they dont own anything, few counties over from me a guy wearing a skirt assaulted girls at two separate schools and the school board tried covering it up and had the dad of one of the girls arrested when he got angry and the newspaper called him a terrorist. Stuff like that and x1000 more things. About to go to bed.
>they are trying their hardest to make it worse.
And who is this "they"?
>not to mention printing like 20 years worth of money in less than 1 year and pretending it will be fine. Also you have every big Corp on boards who talk about buying up assets to "improve" the lives of people so they dont own anything, few counties over from me a guy wearing a skirt assaulted girls at two separate schools and the school board tried covering it up and had the dad of one of the girls arrested when he got angry and the newspaper called him a terrorist.
And you think that this didn't happened 60 years ago, or that perhaps it happened less frequently, is that correct?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MABMM301USM189S
Bed. No one can read today. Going to bed now. Not worth my time teaching more kids.
>Bed
Night anon.
Don't forget your meds mate
And why do you think the government and the big corporations are out to get you?
He has that kiddie mentality that the "bad rich people" are going to take all the money to themselves...
>Stuff like that and x1000 more things. About to go to bed.
How do you know 1000 more things are about to go bad?
Because resources and power are horded by elites. Just like in real life. It's a quintessential feature of cyberpunk.
The better question is why did BR2049 get such shit posters. It's no wonder the film fucking bombed with promotion like that
Yes, the film is visually so great, but the poster is just standart generic cast member plus background photoshop that's everywhere nowadays.
Americans can't into any kind of even slightly abstract promo art.
World War Terminus devastated much of the Earth, and everybody moved off-world, well almost everybody, the movies fucked that aspect of it up.
The replicants were built to help us live on off-world colonies and aren't meant to be on Earth, that's why they're criminals in the first film, that and the murdering.
Checked.
Because of Ryan Gosling's severe autism
Thats what happens when mega corporations go to war.
Think Tyrell corp vs Weyland-Yutani
Aren't all the people that could afford it living on the unspoiled off-world colonies and earth is just a burnt out industrial zone for slaves and poors?
Climate change got so bad that they had to create a wall from the on coming sea level. Why do you think it's constantly raining? The atmosphere is in a constant fight of trying to stabilize itself out.
ennui
Because all the slaves worked in off-world colonies. The ones on earth weren’t supposed to be there, unless they personally worked for the corporation
Can someone explain why there is no such thing as utopian science Fi coming from Hollywood. Like *look how fucking awesome 2050 could be bitch asses. *
It’s been done (see pic related and Mr Nobody) but it’s rare, mostly because dystopian sci fi is more popular and easier to make plots out of
Nukes and pollution
If you'd read the book you'd know that the world is filled with radiation and everyone stranded on Earth has some sort of mutation. The cities have walls because outside them radiation is at unsafe levels.
The same reason most of it is a shithole now despite all the 'efforts' of a thousand generations of improoovers. Because any contribution you make to the advancement of technology or productivity etc just goes to enabling the production of more people (with the same innate level of dissatisfaction and greed).
>muh nuclear
no