This is why Billionaires need their financial power to be curtailed, I feel these resource hoarding oddities will be the doom of the common folk. These individuals are usually surrounded with "Yes People" and are never challenged in a serious capacity to reconsider their unsound ideas or beliefs; it's worrisome to me that this is the plot from any post-apocalyptic game! Making the ultra-rich pay their dues is the wisest course of action, as it would help all of us experience a better quality of life as well as stopping them from being the cause of potential disasters.
I can’t get over this, the dinner scene sounds straight out of the Horizon series. Billionaire tech magnates trying to “reshape the world” using technology, with no concern for how much life it destroys. They even have the researcher trying to extend the human lifespan.
@twipped On my recent re-play of HZD, I wanted to get 100% completion, and I took the time to re-read all the datapoints.
For a game where production really spun up around 2014, the datapoints are shockingly (and depressingly) ahead of their time in regards to capitalism, AI-related job displacement, etc. Like, "too soon, y'all" levels.
But good news: according to HZD it'll only be another 20 years before lawmakers get around to actually making useful legislation:
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