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I feel like we're 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 (lemmy.world)
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I have seen a few of these with similar story lines and realized we are living it right now. They have the best healthcare, the best food, the best everything and most of us are a few dollars from disaster. That scares some of us to death literally from all the stress it causes.

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[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It's okay. There will be no Elysium. They'll die on this molten rock right here with us if they're still alive by then.

I think our reality is more like Idiocracy than Elysium.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago

The people in Idiocracy were wiser because when they found the smartest person they put him in charge pretty much straight away.

[–] LilPappyWigwam@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Can confirm! Just rewatched Idiocracy.

[–] jcit878@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it won't be a space station but on earth. the rich been building bunkers in new Zealand. which..has a really fucked up wealth disparity and cost of living crisis before it was cool.

good luck staying safe fuckers

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to hoard your supplies during the collapse of civilization, all you did was made yourself a target to the person with a bigger gun.

[–] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bunkers ain't gonna do shit if they can't grow food

[–] Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, you'll be pleased to know there are a lot of projects working on indoor vertical farming. Both as a method to spin up food production in heavily populated cities, and as a method for sustainable Mars and Moon bases. Which are effectively just bunkers, in space.

[–] oce@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago

I think there will still be many places that will be livable even if the temperature rises to +10, such as Nothern Canada and Russia. So it seems probable "rich" people could be able to have their own colonies their, though it's probable rich will have a different meaning then, maybe more about water and food than numbers on the internet. Our species is far from endangered, it's rather our civilisations that are, the bad and the good in them.