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Personally, as is often noted, "Idiocracy" is probably tops for current events... but for the farther future, I'd go Blade Runner Universe, most likely.... just for the sheer scale of total biosphere degradation and megacorp control. How about you?

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[โ€“] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The Running Man novel is set in 2025 and the second movie adaptation just came out. Things aren't as bad as they are portrayed there. Reality shows aren't killing people yet. But people are going on exploitative reality shows because they feel desperate for money.

[โ€“] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Not too far away yet.

There is a squid games reality show which is based on a game where they kill people, and they pretend to kill them in the show so it's being normalized.

And Mr beast has his gameshow which is similar, where they treat the contestants inhumanly just for the convenience of the production.