In the series, corporations get a bailout when things get bad, collude to make it worse with profits over people and then basically buy off world governments in a reverse bail out to take control of the system. With a “Corporate Congress” and all people having a “life debt”.

Oh, and the time travel aspect of it is pretty cool too.

  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
    51·
    14 hours ago

    I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

    • unqualified populist US president
    • canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
    • subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
    • catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

    edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy