The dystopia she is describing, when implemented, would be nothing like what she is describing.
It is a return to serfdom.
Where you cannot build a future for yourself or your family because you cannot build anything.
Where you are utterly dependent on the landowners for your daily survival.
They can tell you do anything they want under threat of having no food, no shelter, no transportation. You have no property, they can take everything from you in seconds.
Even if all the shit worked exactly as described and the government were perfect little angels that always put the people first the society being described is fucking terrible. People using my living room for business meetings when I'm not there? How about no and fuck off. Rent my kitchen equipment and send it back when I'm done with it? What the fuck is this? I won't own a car because instead I can get some piss-filled piece of shit to pull up on command any time I want? Hmm, my own car that I can keep how I want in the condition I want it in or some lottery where I get a car with a literal dead guy in it because he fucking shot himself due to the shithole of a society he was living in. Real hard choice, that one is...
You don't even need an outside source to tell you why this shit is antithetical to what it is to be a Human. Anybody with a brain can tell this would be an absolute atrocity just by reading it. It just feels wrong reading the words.
People using my living room for business meetings when I'm not there? How about no and fuck off.
LOL yeah I'm with you on that.
OK just to be honest though. I think some people do get too many possessions and feel trapped by them. And I think that is where the attraction of Tiny Homes comes from. People dream of having nothing to guard or maintain.
For example, I just counted the number of gasoline engines I need to take care of. 10. And I'm just a random suburban person. A lawn, and three buildings to keep bug free, and deal with water leaks and rot. It seems to never end and as I get older it gets more and more difficult.
Fair enough. And yea there's definitely a yearning for freedom and a lack of ties or "chains" I guess you could say that comes with being Human but I'd also say there's a desire for something to call ours. Buying an expensive house and paying people to make it look good is one thing, but creating something yourself that's truly yours definitely has value I'd say. It doesn't need to be fancy or a lot, just something nice. Something that you made nice yourself and didn't just buy with money, most importantly.
I'd say the people there who don't have medical care, or say air conditioning and modern plumbing, are probably missing out on more life. When you live in the way uncontacted tribes would, your time is largely spent just trying to acquire enough food andn water to live, along with creating or managing any shelter you have. There's no time for reading a book, going to the park with the kids, taking a long morning coffee and brunch or having the weekends off. I suppose if you enjoy hunting it would be more tolerable, but when that's basically your whole life I'd expect it would get old.
As someone who has lived in a survival situation for an extended period of time, you are dead on. It is freeing, at first. After the initial bill free/financial free worry wears off, you spend every moment preparing for the next catastrophe. Water collection, water sterilization (you only make the mistake of drinking unclean water once), food gathering, building/repairing/improving your shelter, trying to catch food, gather any thing edible. There is a reason for people dying young in the primitive world. You are always one mistake or one accident away from sickness, injury, malnutrition or death. The romance wears off very quickly. Those yearning for less responsibility are able to achieve it with simple choice. Wishing for the whole world to burn to free you from materialistic burdens is extremely selfish. Simplify your life, if you are tired of it. I have paid off all revolving debt, including my house. It is extremely liberating and that hasn't worn off yet. Now I concentrate on things I want to do, instead of always doing what I have to. That burden alone is almost indescribable.
The dystopia she is describing, when implemented, would be nothing like what she is describing.
It is a return to serfdom.
Where you cannot build a future for yourself or your family because you cannot build anything.
Where you are utterly dependent on the landowners for your daily survival.
They can tell you do anything they want under threat of having no food, no shelter, no transportation. You have no property, they can take everything from you in seconds.
You mean an entity that can give you everything can also take it away?
Who knew
Even if all the shit worked exactly as described and the government were perfect little angels that always put the people first the society being described is fucking terrible. People using my living room for business meetings when I'm not there? How about no and fuck off. Rent my kitchen equipment and send it back when I'm done with it? What the fuck is this? I won't own a car because instead I can get some piss-filled piece of shit to pull up on command any time I want? Hmm, my own car that I can keep how I want in the condition I want it in or some lottery where I get a car with a literal dead guy in it because he fucking shot himself due to the shithole of a society he was living in. Real hard choice, that one is...
You don't even need an outside source to tell you why this shit is antithetical to what it is to be a Human. Anybody with a brain can tell this would be an absolute atrocity just by reading it. It just feels wrong reading the words.
LOL yeah I'm with you on that.
OK just to be honest though. I think some people do get too many possessions and feel trapped by them. And I think that is where the attraction of Tiny Homes comes from. People dream of having nothing to guard or maintain.
For example, I just counted the number of gasoline engines I need to take care of. 10. And I'm just a random suburban person. A lawn, and three buildings to keep bug free, and deal with water leaks and rot. It seems to never end and as I get older it gets more and more difficult.
Fair enough. And yea there's definitely a yearning for freedom and a lack of ties or "chains" I guess you could say that comes with being Human but I'd also say there's a desire for something to call ours. Buying an expensive house and paying people to make it look good is one thing, but creating something yourself that's truly yours definitely has value I'd say. It doesn't need to be fancy or a lot, just something nice. Something that you made nice yourself and didn't just buy with money, most importantly.
Some days I'm jealous of those "uncontacted" tribes we hear about.. We might have alot of "stuff" but who is the ones actually missing out on life?
I'd say the people there who don't have medical care, or say air conditioning and modern plumbing, are probably missing out on more life. When you live in the way uncontacted tribes would, your time is largely spent just trying to acquire enough food andn water to live, along with creating or managing any shelter you have. There's no time for reading a book, going to the park with the kids, taking a long morning coffee and brunch or having the weekends off. I suppose if you enjoy hunting it would be more tolerable, but when that's basically your whole life I'd expect it would get old.
As someone who has lived in a survival situation for an extended period of time, you are dead on. It is freeing, at first. After the initial bill free/financial free worry wears off, you spend every moment preparing for the next catastrophe. Water collection, water sterilization (you only make the mistake of drinking unclean water once), food gathering, building/repairing/improving your shelter, trying to catch food, gather any thing edible. There is a reason for people dying young in the primitive world. You are always one mistake or one accident away from sickness, injury, malnutrition or death. The romance wears off very quickly. Those yearning for less responsibility are able to achieve it with simple choice. Wishing for the whole world to burn to free you from materialistic burdens is extremely selfish. Simplify your life, if you are tired of it. I have paid off all revolving debt, including my house. It is extremely liberating and that hasn't worn off yet. Now I concentrate on things I want to do, instead of always doing what I have to. That burden alone is almost indescribable.
You wrong think, you're social credit gets turned off
Black Mirror is now reality.
And everyone will be happy.
They will be happy because they own everything, including you.
They can decide to rape your wife and sacrifice your children to Moloch, and you will be happy about it.
Because anyone who expresses unhappiness in any form will be immediately terminated.
That is their formula for universal happiness.
Ahh Utopia.
YOUR family?!?!