The system worked like that for a few millennia. We’re just looking at not even a century that’s the exception and assume it’s the new norm. No, it’s just reverting to the old state now that the period of cheap and easy resources is gone.
Granny is sitting there casually knitting. The adventure looks a bit closer and notices she’s making chainmail armor. Using a ball of stainless steel as yarn. The ball jumps up and down, chipping away at the floor. This isn’t helped by either a small tiger of really overgrown cat, most likely her familiar, batting at the ball. She notices the adventurer staring and asks:
“Hello young men. Would you like some armor? Here, let me check if it fits.”
Granny stands up with the speed of an attacking snake and casually drapes the largely finished armor over him, making his knees almost buckle under the weight.
“Oh dear, this is a bit too big on you. Let me find one a bit smaller, perhaps in a lighter fabric. One second, please.”
It’s why they keep making super hero movies, so you don’t get that idea.
Oh, so that’s why it’s also called the pedo pavilion.
Faking personal interest as a ritual greeting between business types. It’s about as real as the greasy laughter they use for each other’s often misogynistic tinted jokes when the managers gather.
There be lightning in the internet cloud, and because of the thunder your computer can’t hear the cloud no more.
The wealth was needed to pay soldiers. You needed soldiers to make sure people did what the king wanted, such as people paying taxes to get wealth. The whole thing with taxes and needing gold as money was basically invented for supporting militia, according to some.
And why “entertainment news” stations allegedly start spouting and blaming whatever is convenient for them. The first line sticks, and the correction afterwards bounces off.
Doesn’t seem quite realistic. It should me more like:
“You will be eaten. Vote Wolf for protection.”
Depending on what part you focus on and how you interpret this, he tells it like it is and he flagrantly lies.
I fondly remember the simpler times, with the cold war and threat of nuclear annihilation every day. Oh, Chernobyl was also a blast. The Gulf War made for great entertainment too.
Sounds more like preparing for a lot of Quiet Firing (harassing people so they quit) when the AI bubble starts to deflate or pop.
The beatings will continue until it stops improving the morale of the elite
If you keep ignoring alarmists, the thing they’re warning about might come true.
You’re never saved in the trolley problem. You’re only saved for later.
Money needs to keep moving. If it starts to pool on one side is a sign society gets stagnant and bad stuff starts to happen.
Good dream. My dream would have the thing sprout spider legs and crawl over the stairs.
Is this a double jeopardy kind of thing? If you’re accused of being a terrorist anyway…
Shoot boats around Venezuela until a war starts might do the trick
Yes, with a short golden age roughly between WWII and the seventies, and going downhill for most people since then.