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[–]DrStrangelove 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

So this is how society will split, like H.G. Wells Eloi and Morlock from The Time Machine. The normies will live secure, sheltered, regimented lives inside walled technocratic city states, while off in the distance a free-range juggalo sips his Faygo rock n' rye. Tastes like freedom.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It's kind of already like that. And then machines will be the underground workers that keep everything going. And then one day the machines break, and no one remembers how to fix them anymore...

[–]5Nco2VME7FpWVbuS 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I feel like this is a book...

[–]magnora7 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ha it is, I got the idea from this short story published in 1909: https://www.ele.uri.edu/faculty/vetter/Other-stuff/The-Machine-Stops.pdf

It's a good quick read, worth it imo