I know Amazon is playing me.
But they’re right.
Mike McDaniel gonna call the lightning special today? Not only do you get a Tua TD but you can get 65 percent off of septic tank cleaner
We live in a dystopia, but not one of those sci-fi dystopias that are at least interesting. Instead we have a boring dystopia where companies just try to suck as much money out of us as possible.
r/aboringdystopia
Compared to how humans have lived for all the history of the world, including many today, this “dystopia” we live in is actually pretty great
best dystopia we’ve ever seen…so far
Yeah until this trend of hyper-capitalism inevitably sends us into an actual dystopian world where only people with 6 figures in their bank account can survive while the rest are left behind to perish.
Melodramatic as fuck. You’re richer and better off than any other average person in the history of the planet.
r/aboringdystopia
Ehhh WFH jobs, medicine, technology advancements, weed quality/ legalization all pretty nice
You don’t have to shop on Black Friday or spend huge amounts of money on gifts. The dystopia you’re thinking of is self made.
Not really. Not when it’s shoved in your face everywhere you go.
You still don’t have to do it. It doesn’t matter how much someone tries to get you to do something. If you don’t want to do it just… don’t do it
No, it’s all the corporations fault that I’m fat and waste all my money on worthless consumer goods
You don’t have to spend an ever-increasing portion of your income on food, shelter, and transportation. And you don’t have to prioritize pointless work and attempt to monetize your hobbies. All the people who do shop on Black Friday will have lots of leftover cardboard boxes for the rest of us to die in.
Most people don’t buy food shelter and transportation on Amazon Black Friday
Ever notice how every dystopian story has all of society doing dystopian shit, but there’s always a Bernard Marx or a Guy Montag or a Winston Smith or a Neo that are the only ones who realize or do anything about it? But the fact that they don’t actively participate doesn’t make it any less of a dystopia
People lacking the self control to avoid overspending on things they don’t need isn’t dystopia.
I dunno, billions of chinese/indians laboring to keep the quality of life up for a hundred million americans seems like great suffering to me
If you got a way for americans to give large amounts of money to chinese and indian people without that being exchanged for good and services I’m all ears. For now, their quality of life is significantly improved compared to doing subsistence farming.
yeah I don’t even know how you’d start to gather data on the QOL of subsistence farming vs kids working 12 hour days sewing stuffed animals and shoes
but even if your assertion were true, a small QOL bump for a group of people an order of magnitude larger than another group with a huge QOL bump is like the basis for any dystopian story of the last 30+ years
By every conceivable metric life is better right now than it ever has been in an all of human history.
But sure boring dystopia because ads are getting delivered to you differently during your football game you watch on your internet connected tv from your couch in the air conditioning
I doubt people are as happy or fulfilled nowadays though
Physical and mental health are declining but at least people can sit on the couch and eat fake food and buy products!
Yes I’m sure all the people globally who aren’t living in extreme poverty anymore with rock bottom literacy rates and sky high infant mortality rates are super bummed out they aren’t as fulfilled as when they were subsistence farming
Welcome to Capitalism
Please deposit your hard earned cash for these useless home products that are built to fail in 1-3 years so you have to purchase them again on a Black Friday a few years from now.
Yes under communism there isn’t a chance of a dystopia /s
Y’all are insane lol.
Its ads during a football game I think we will be okay
I mean, that isn’t too far off from A Brave New World.
r/ABoringDystopia
The more I think about it Idiocracy was really a film predicting the future not a satirical comedy.
Hail Corporation driven holidays.
I don’t enjoy nfl on Amazon
Bold stance
I was going to watch the game standing but this sitting thing sounds nice
I was going to watch the game sitting but now i’m going to stand in hopes it pisses of bezos
This is some dystopian shit.
It’s not enough that they show ads during 30 second timeouts now. Gone are the days that challenges are actually discussed on air. Just waiting for kickoffs or the extra point to be in the little corner while they show the hundredth insurance ad.
Spot on
tbf there isn’t even a discussion 90% of the time on the field for those challenges, they just come straight from the NFL HQ. The on-field referee antics are just a show at this point, the real decisions are made elsewhere
Black Friday? What that means? :D
people are still off work/school from thanksgiving yesterday and it marks the start of christmas shopping so a lot of stores have big sales on their stuff, so people historically have rushed into physical stores to take advantage of the sales on friday
obviously now that amazon is as huge as it is, online shopping has kinda killed the in-person part of it.
its just another money grab by the nfl and amazon, trying to capitalize on a “holiday” celebrating the american ideals of consumerism and commercialization
What
You spent all day yesterday being thankful for what you already have. Now you most shop. You must consume.
I mean…… you don’t have too?
They are really banking on people watching Tim Boyle for 4 quarters huh?
Give me 50% off codes that only show up on screen during the game and I would.
A 50% discount is not worth having to watch the Jets.
Going to get to the point where there’s deals and a little Amazon influencer on the bottom corner of the TV showing off team merch.
Are we getting even more of a discount if this game is blowout or if the jets offense gets rolling?
I will be eating great value salsa and I may or may not procure a means to watch said stream in a way that may or may not be illegal, allegedly