Elysium has human laborers, though. The main character literally works at a factory creating the droids for the station’s uses.
Elysium has human laborers, though. The main character literally works at a factory creating the droids for the station’s uses.
fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
It seems implied that they have labor and work as a means of control and less because they need to. Most of the work seemed to be just oppressing people like him.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I don’t see any attempt at the movie’s part showing that the products they were making weren’t somehow used by the citizens of Elysium. The droids are everywhere, implying that they fulfill a need based on what remaining manufacturing can be done on world.
It’s not meant to portray a society that has a fully automated economy, it’s about one that relies on the other for creating goods that will be used and priced out of the range of the laborers who created it.