If you wanted to read something hilariously dumb, here's a... look at Blade Runner movies that made me laugh out loud at work. 🤣
I can hardly believe that someone
A) Actually wrote this
B) Voluntarily chose to make it public.
https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/-40-years-later-blade-runners-dystopian
🦄 40 years later, 'Blade Runner's' dystopian economics still make zero sense

The film and its sequel depict incredible technological progress. So why is life shown as so implausibly awful?

Faster, Please!
@dosnostalgic I mean... really, what can you expect from an Elon stan that writes shit such as...

> And it’s not just that some TeslaBot could work longer and more efficiently than its human counterpart.

also...

> Destructive climate change? Mega-machines to suck carbon out of the sky. Resource constraints? Asteroid mining. Population explosion? To quote an ad from the first film, “A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies. The chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure.” Then again, life on Earth should also be pretty good for the Earth-loving remainers.

and...

> economic history suggests a far less dystopian future. For example: The consumption habits of the rich — automobiles, air travel, computers, giant TVs, smartphones — eventually becomes the consumption habits of everyone else. It’s not like Elon Musk has access to a better COVID-19 vaccine than I do. Indeed, what Musk is doing at SpaceX is a good example of this phenomenon. Its innovations are dramatically reducing the cost of space launches such that there is now a realistic path for regular people going to and living in space, not just the super-rich. Economic history also suggests that even in a period of increased inequality, faster productivity growth boosts living standards.

It's not even funny. It's completely disgusrting tbh
@dosnostalgic OH WOW it's much much worse than I thought...

> [the author] James Pethokoukis is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American…
American Enterprise Institute - Wikipedia