Lately I’ve been collecting factoids that I’ve found dystopian about the world we already inhabit.
- A mirror that insists that cancer patients smile
- HK’s coffin cubicles
- “… you have to pay for ambulances?”
- “A pile of CVs was found next to his body.”
- Congrats on your 500 <3 tweet!
- The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself To Death
- Lyft celebrates pregnant driver who worked until she went into labor (“Golden Fistbump”)
- Interview gets cancelled because prospect asks about compensation
- Crowdfunding medical treatments
- Times Square costumed characters are undocumented migrants
- Sex for $25 + McNuggets – charged with prostitution
- Venezuela president dancing while soldiers shoot tear gas and clash with protesters. Perfect encapsulation of surreal state TV
- US hired former child soldiers in Iraq
- How drug ad narrators take the scariness out of side effects
- For sharing a scientific paper, a young researcher faces jail time
- The Last Person You’d Expect to Die In Childbirth: “The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world, and 60 percent are preventable.”
- Child brides
- A Turkish firm sold roughly 1200 fake life vests to refugees fleeing to the sea. The vests soak up water and sink instead of floating.
1. An out-of-work guy gets taken to the hospital in an ambulance
2. He can’t pay the bill (ambulances are expensive!)
3. The city sues him to get the money
4. He misses his court date
5. Gets arrested
6. Kills himself in jail
https://t.co/nXqFwcdubj— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) February 28, 2018
Interesting reads:
- Vanity Fair – list of dystopian tropes
- Rules for Rulers [19:32]
- Tweetstorm about economies of post-collapse fictional societies
- Gizmodo’s dystopia tag
- One child policy
- https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5j9ju8/what_becomes_more_fucked_up_the_longer_you_think/
Triggers:
- Pepsi / Kendall
- United
- Kong Hee
- Amazon Workers
- Trump is POTUS
- Selling military drones with passion / feminism
- People cheering when clowns like Amos Yee and the Malaysian Bomoh get repressed by the state (Thx Sam)