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