An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the “Eloi” of a technofeudal system designed to extract wealth, time and security from the many.

Interesting re-examination of ‘The Time Machine’ in the light of the Information Revolution. Maybe a stretching of the metaphor, maybe not.

  • Cherry@piefed.socialEnglish
    10·
    4 days ago

    It is an odd interpretation. But as you say pertinent, but the defeatism has to stop. I think people are waking up. Educate others, hold debate on how we have been conditioned.

    Rich nations with affluence can be quite a passive places, we need to get people back to being comfortable with dissent and the status quo delivered from it’s challenge.

      • belochka@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        … lost in recent like 20 years, in my childhood dissent was far more normal than now. I think it’s social media, but also the commonly pursued concept of what’s socially respectable, solid and real.

        And dissent is, by normalization, what allows peace in society.

        • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          And dissent is, by normalization, what allows peace in society.

          Truly, but also by extension, tolerance makes for a more civilized society. Especially for the different.