Comment on I feel like are all stuck in a movie where all the rich people live on some kind of floating island or satellite with everything they need to live well, and all of us have zero chance of going there.

paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How long until they farm us and eat us?

  Ah, who am I kidding? Morlocks and Eloi would never happen. They wouldn’t give us free food.

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  • Thoth19@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you have that analogy backwards. The point was that the industrial proletariat stayed underground while the bourgeois regressed into the eloi bc they had built the overworked utopia and had no need to do anything. This is the literal way the rich.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re safer going to mars or Venus. Once they are in their bunkers, there’s nothing to stop a whole lot of us from sealing the air intakes with concrete.

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