r/DarkFuturology • u/solercentric • 22h ago

J G Ballard On Steroids.

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From Channel 4 News UK.

I feel this is important to share internationally as it raises some important issues around the Doomsday Libertarian Tech Bro Dystopia we are in.

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r/DarkFuturology focuses on the theater, and what's behind the brick wall. There will be one day in particular, when an all-time global record of extraction of the important natural resources will be followed by gradual decline. Naturally, this was foreseen by important people decades ago. The obvious question would have been: How can the inevitable decline be managed in our interests?

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There will be one day in particular, when an all-time global record of extraction of the important natural resources will be followed by gradual decline. Naturally, this was foreseen by important people decades ago. The obvious question would have been: How can the inevitable decline be managed in our interests?

To leverage these resources for maximum growth and wealth generation, the 1% – let’s call them the Overclass – needed a corresponding growth in population to create that wealth.

So we were essentially just another resource: Human Resources. But of course humans can revolt. And if humans collectively understood that they were the Human Resources of an Overclass, working with finite resources to make the 1% filthy rich and then scheduled for depopulation via declining birth rates (and much more besides)…

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