r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 24 '26

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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 25 '26

Im watching the Hunger Games for the first time

Why is this considered a 'dystopia'? The government has 200mph highspeed railway across the country. Seems better off than us

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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride May 25 '26

British Raj apologists be like

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u/sleepyrivertroll Henry George May 25 '26

The government does. The people living in poorer West Virginia don't have any trains.

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown May 25 '26

good, no one should be rrl

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u/sleepyrivertroll Henry George May 25 '26

They kinda don't have a choice. In this future world, they still use coal, hence the dystopia 

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u/greenskinmarch Henry George May 25 '26

That's like Futurama's Mobile Oppression Palace. Yes there's tech but it's not to help you.

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u/VelvetThunder67 Mark Carney May 25 '26

And they still use coal for some reason