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pumpkin20222002 t1_j21yq2o wrote

Dystopian or Utopian. Either we all move towards a single goal of feeding, housing, educating and caring for each other outside the confines of economic ability.....or the technology that we have gained is used by corporations to keep us in a new age slavery where we're born in debt and can't hope the have class mobility because everything is so damn expensive.

Ex. Housing, medical, education, even food has gone up more than triple the pace of wages since 1980. (Except some fields, IT etc) Thats why one parent use to work and make a good living for a family of four, now its paycheck to paycheck for a couple and one bad medical episode away from bankrupting them. Im not socialist, just not so hardcore capitalist the way it is now.

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S0nG0ku88 t1_j2236pn wrote

I wouldn't hold my breath on the latter. Humanity is anything if not relentlessly dissapointing. Deforrestation and desertification is expanding, water is becoming more scarce. Species are dying in record numbers. Russia and EU at each others throats. India vs China. China vs US. AI & robotics will put a lot of people out of work at some point. Only the highest levels of educated work will be available and pay and the vast majority of the population will be impoverished and not meet that criteria. Social programs become piggy banks for central government coffers so people get less and less in an ever increasing inflation enviroment. On top of all of the rich and multinationals are buying up and hording most of the available property. In the medical/science field soon humans will start genetically modifying themselves or their children possibly causing a whole host of new genetic diseases and issues to be passed into the general population. I'd say the future looks bright!

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Rabid_Sloth_ t1_j2274i4 wrote

"The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history"

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Crotchmaster3000 t1_j2279xk wrote

Basically mad max. In the SES I’m in I am looking forward to showing up all shiny and chrome

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S0nG0ku88 t1_j22c4jq wrote

I was thinking of a future more similar to Battlefield 2042, WW3 around 2050 - then the genetic wars from Star Trek around 2100 and then we arrive at the start of The Expanse.

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psychosil444 OP t1_j22hcb1 wrote

A battlefield 2042 scenario would be the most disappointing future. If we’re shooting our shot I’m voting cod advanced warfare at the LEAST

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