Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

While his brother did turn him in, it was his sister in-law who did not like Ted or his ideas that firsr identified Ted and then forced Dave to turn Ted in. She quite literally used the threat of divorce to get Dave to dob in Ted. Edit: oh, no. The "gig economy" isn't a return to form. The gig economy is the elites finding a way around IR laws and consolidating industries. The internet isn't a tool, it's a utility to facilitate tools. The internet as we know it today will be gone soon enough, falling into the shadows and given as much thought as the sewage pipes. It may even become part of us. The internet isn't salvation. It's a collar aroind your neck. You also make the mistake of presuming dystopia is a future possibility. But what writers like Huxley and Orwell tell us is that we have been living in such a dystopia since at least the early 20th century. What we're going through now is a transition. We moved from family oriented rich land owners commanding our lives under the heading of monarchy or empirical style dictatorship, to free markets where anyone could become a rich land owner and governments are people chosen. Right now, we are moving from the latter to a new stage. Where nations cease to exist and our loyalty is pledged to a corporation instead, where our entire life will be in its service. We're already everything kaczynski was afraid of. Maybe you just can't see it yet.
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