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Things that happen in Silicon Valley and also the Soviet Union: - waiting years to receive a car you ordered, to find that it's of poor workmanship and quality - promises of colonizing the solar system while you toil in drudgery day in, day out

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- living five adults to a two room apartment - being told you are constructing utopia while the system crumbles around you

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- 'totally not illegal taxi' taxis by private citizens moonlighting to make ends meet - everything slaved to the needs of the military-industrial complex

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- mandatory workplace political education - productivity largely falsified to satisfy appearance of sponsoring elites

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- deviation from mainstream narrative carries heavy social and political consequences - networked computers exist but they're really bad

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- Henry Kissinger visits sometimes for some reason

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- elite power struggles result in massive collateral damage, sometimes purges - failures are bizarrely upheld as triumphs

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- otherwise extremely intelligent people just turning the crank because it's the only way to get ahead

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- the plight of the working class is discussed mainly by people who do no work

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- the United States as a whole is depicted as evil by default

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- the currency most people are talking about is fake and worthless

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- the economy is centrally planned, using opaque algorithms not fully understood by their users

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Elite power struggles and The damage they cause is exactly our present situation in Brazil

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Fail forward!

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^

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