this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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A Boring Dystopia
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Yeah, there's a place I wanted to go last night, but not only is it a two hour round trip, I have to pay for gas and mileage. So I stayed home.
We've really fucked ourselves as a society, building infrastructure that requires everyone to be wealthy.
America used to be wealthy, and developed a culture that expected that. Then more and more of the wealth was funneled into fewer and fewer hands. If America had maintained and grew its distributive structures, the impacts would still be a problem but the basic elements of survival wouldn't feel so difficult to obtain.
You bet. We are like the moose covered in ticks. Ever sector of the economy has been parasitized by oligopoly.