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Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days agoNaa this is from the documentary “Idiocracy”. You should watch it. There are a lot of accurate predictions even though it’s kind of old now.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They got a lot of stuff wrong, TBH. President Camacho, for all his superficial similarity to Trump, is sincerely invested in helping his country. Reality is way, way worse.
DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 days ago
The other part is that they depicted the corporations as completely innocent idiots too; "the computer said the money went away so I had to fire people and now they're all rioting in the streets!" As if the company wasn't at fault for all of that.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Also the eugenics stuff. Yeah, it was just a low-effort way to set up the premis, but eww (and also very incorrect). They had to make sleepwaling into that kind of thing seem plausible with some explanation. Instead, we didn’t actually need that.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
At the end of the day it was a comedy. Sometimes subtly is a virtue.
It’s pretty clear that the movie satirizes and critiques the corporate world.
DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 days ago
I'll give you 'satire'. But I don't really agree with 'critiques'. The lesson i got from the movie was "stupid people can't really have empathy, so they just need to shut up and let actual smart people do the important work", and also eugenics.
If it was critiquing the modern corporate structure, it would have included actual critiques of the modern corporate structure, rather than a single poor idiot in charge of a big company who should have just let the smart guy fix it all for him.