GhostFence @ GhostFence @lemmy.world

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And the Zionists will look at you and say "...and that's what we wanted all along!"

As long as a single Palestinian is left alive they will not stop killing.

III% delusion brigade has entered the chat

Let them go and the white nationalists forever lose electoral power in what remains of America. As a black man... I support this reduction in threats to my life and my family's life.

The dystopian horror I see coming is is if you have no social media, you have no online reputation to boost your standing / social credit score. The landlord sees you as anti-social and will dock your rental bid score bigly for that. After all you might be anti-social and that Karen/Daren landlord doesn't want that! (Yes, asshole dirtbag logic in general is endemic to Capitalism.)

The 2nd dial-to-11 factor of my prediction is not that you need a steady job - it's that if (for instance) you work as a screenwriter with 10 years of rock solid employment, you just took a huge hit to your "rental bid score" because in this dystopian scenario the landlord's arbitrary algorithm has decided that automation/AI is threatening to make your job redundant in the near future (whether or not this is true). Plus said algorithm is opaque and unknowable so you will have no idea why it rejected you.... kinda like job applicants of today.

Also today you need one or two referrals from your landlords and maybe also a family member. In the dystopian future I see coming, the more friends and bosses and such that you have to vouch for you, the higher your rental bid score will be. References from two landlords and a family member are trumped by refs from 3 landlords, your coworkers, your boss, and your family.

Overall? What I see coming is landlords will use unaccountable algorithms which want to know every tiny thing about you and they will tweak that algorithm in unknowable ways to judge your fitness as a renter using 29 (or more) additional dimensions than they do now. Most of the time they'll use it to sell your personal information and have no intent of renting the place out at all. We're sliding in that general direction now with rental scams driven by the actual landlords. Plus on top of that there absolutely will be a brutally insidious "set your own rental price" encouraging rental applicants to bid to the moon.

I expect most who read this to say this is out of this world sci-fi overexaggeration. Our grandkids will call it reality. Rental bidding is already here on a small scale. The thin end of the wedge is already in the door.

As one expert said on National Geographic's "Deep Sea Disaster" climate change crisis speculative episode, "Nature will squeeze us into pockets of instability and then kill us". Coastal cities will go underwater, storms will destroy other coastal cities, which means less land to inhabit. A catastrophic reduction of land/real estate and droughts killing crops will lead to skyrocketing tribalism - a perfect breeding ground for authoritarianism. An endgame scenario leading to a "Panem" is not out of the question.

Oh so this is why "Republican" is listed as a synonym for "Dystopia"...

Frankly if the aliens invade my plan is to give them Texas so they'll leave the rest of the world alone. Though... plot twist... I think they already did take Texas...

Prop 187 was what turned California around. We're about to see the same biting of the Republicans on their butts again with Prop 22.

urrrgh, this grits my teeth. Without food stamps people STARVE. This "it subsidizes grocery stores" is exactly one of the narratives used to take this subsidy away from poor people.

"But people will adapt" bullshit look at every country that doesn't have welfare... they're all third world/below third world countries. All of them.

Greetings from the average American family 20 minutes in your future:

Rents have gotten so expensive now that national bidding companies have arisen to address the crisis. Now renters can decide their own prices by bid-scoring on property and rental housing. Average monetary bid on housing in Austin is $5000 for a bachelor's pad but the money is only part of the bid-score. It also includes the usual credit rating and income reporting, but also your social media connections, the stability of your job (calculated by opaque market analysis firms), letters of recommendation from your employer, friends and family, and your overall "social credit" score (how many people give you 5-stars on every day interactions?).

This actually turned out to be an incredible democratization of housing! Landlords no longer control rents! We now have 1.2 million homeless in America but hey that's their faults for being poor, working jobs vulnerable to automation and offshoring, and especially the shut-ins, glad to see we're flushing them out and forcing them to socialize and be popular, or get thrown into the streets!

I love this country!

Chapter 1 from "Not Your Parents' Dystopia", coming to your reality soon!

"Housing addiction: the next drug war." - Republicans/Capitalists

So is this why people on the streets who AREN'T addicted unable to get back into housing?

Admiral Holdo earning her place in Asgard for an eternity of mead and roast pig lol

And that's bad because why? :P

Nice. No, not just nice, heroic.

There was an article a while back about how RTO brings profits to stores inside the office buildings - gift shops, restaurants, etc. Externally speaking: oil companies. There is a lot of vampirism involved in RTO that is obvious... and far more that's not.

Good. Hope all these office mandating companies go out of business. No more of people being forced into these mandatory COVID infection labs just to make a living.

How do you avoid catching COVID with such population densities?!

Lowest birth rate in the whole world, too. 0.84 births per woman.

Behold the corporate state.