Fr though- wealth inequality; mythicization of regional differences pitting the proletariat against one another under false pretenses; cameras everywhere/expansive police state (including technology we surely don’t know of yet); predatory, electronic buy-now-pay-later; development of technology for the express purpose of spying on/advertising to/dividing/alienating/pacifying the proletariat/reddit; declines in reading comprehension/critical analysis/thought terminating declarations that any person one disagrees with is a “bot/putin/china”; vr porn/ai chatbots as a solution to alienation; lack of clean drinking water/air in major cities and massive public health disparities based on class differences; widespread virtual gambling; companies predictably selling genetic data people paid them to take; commodification of every aspect of modern life/encouragement of predation on one’s neighbor via forms of landlording; shit-tier techno solutions (eg e-scooters) for private profit instead of structural solutions (eg transit); rolling blackouts which primarily affect poor neighborhoods; ceos crashing their planes into people’s homes; expansion of mercenary/private police forces; books (primarily nonfiction) being treated like a mythical source of “old” knowledge one needs an advanced degree to understand; neon signs (😍 on the last one)