A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive.
@Skirnir@rbreich That's why borders are so heavily policed now - no need to deport the poor, they're already locked in to their "third world" countries.
Try to escape, and you'll just be towed back. Someone has to work that assembly line and produce consumables for the imperial core!
@Audr3y@rbreich As my profile intimates, given the current trajectory, we'll be lucky to have an Orwellian future. Even 1984 seems optimistic - at least folks had food, jobs and housing