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Economy => Economics => Topic started by: theblacksquid on November 12, 2014, 06:17:11 PM



Title: [CRACKED.COM] 7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight
Post by: theblacksquid on November 12, 2014, 06:17:11 PM
http://www.cracked.com/article_21874_7-ways-my-modern-country-turned-into-dystopia-overnight.html (http://www.cracked.com/article_21874_7-ways-my-modern-country-turned-into-dystopia-overnight.html)

Signs of the times?


Title: Re: [CRACKED.COM] 7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight
Post by: WestHarrison on November 12, 2014, 06:33:21 PM
Reading this makes me remember how Robocop was a very good parody at the reality of Municipal Authorities scrambling for money by privatizing public services, in Robocop's example The Police department.  It looked ridiculous at first but seeing the state of current Detroit, how far is that concept from reality nowadays?


Title: Re: [CRACKED.COM] 7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight
Post by: pattu1 on November 13, 2014, 04:49:08 PM
Rather than being backed up by the power of a government (like most money) or the lies of angry robots (Bitcoin), TEM units are based around the idea of a "local exchange trading system.


What does the author have against bitcoins?  :o


Title: Re: [CRACKED.COM] 7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight
Post by: theblacksquid on November 13, 2014, 10:05:20 PM
I think the author was trying to sound jaded and sarcastic.


Title: Re: [CRACKED.COM] 7 Ways My Modern Country Turned Into a Dystopia Overnight
Post by: solitude on November 13, 2014, 10:54:21 PM
>2014
>linking cracked articles, on a bitcoin forum

https://i.imgur.com/emVPeWC.jpg