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I helped out a homeless shelter in Starfield (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is a universe with faster than light travel and near infinite resources. There's a homeless shelter in one of the major cities. I helped them out. Why the fuck is there a homeless shelter in a universe with FTL and near infinite resources?

I'm starting to think Fallout under Bethesda isn't a satire and their writers are just incapable of imagining anything beyond capitalism.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Capitalist realism is a plague that has spread all over contemporary western fiction. It's hard to even imagine settings without it for most people.

Even fantasy fiction is loaded with it. One of the first worldbuilding details most D&D style generic fantasy worlds bring up is "where are the trade lanes and who are the rich assholes profiting from them" yea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its ruining fiction. Why do people want to "escape" in a story to just another capitalist hellhole. Its fucking space futurism! How has the economic conditions not changed in any way?! How have they made this massive effort to develop industries capable of this level of colonization, terraforming, and fucking countless FTL ships when divided up in such a primitive economy like CAPITALISM!