How many dystopian sci fi films feature some background ad campaign to go “off world” as an extreme measure the wealthy are able to take, or desperate indentured servants are shipped off to work.

Maybe as an interstellar program where your great grandkids will be the ones that reach the promised land will attract a different clientele tho

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phailhaus 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> as an extreme measure the wealthy are able to take, or desperate indentured servants are shipped off to work.

This is the part I don't think people appreciate: space sucks. It's horrible. There is not a chance that the rich decide that they'd do that rather than lounge on a yacht. The working class goes first into the mines.

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DrJokepu an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

A story without conflict, where everything goes well wouldn’t be a very interesting story though. So there’s a bit of a survivorship bias there.

	▲	JumpCrisscross an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> story without conflict, where everything goes well America has been lurching from crisis to crisis since Nixon, so it isn’t a surprise that our fiction highlights interpersonal drama. That shouldn’t lead us to conclude that it’s necessary, however. Stories about a team working together against the environment (often portrayed as gods and monsters) are as old as storytelling itself.