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bobbieinok

(12,858 posts) Wed Feb 7, 2018, 01:26 AM Feb 2018

Good thing GOPers don't read much---scifi has many ways to solve prob of poor

* sell everyone in poor families as slaves, payment to govt (includes children): mostly as labor, but sex slaves bring in big $$, esp if govt sells most to brothels and then takes 50% of the brothels' profits

* periodically block off tunnels, subways and fill with deadly gas; gets rid of lots of surplus; since these mostly in urban areas, this is a big crowd pleaser in rural areas

* mandatoty lottery drawings for those in designated demographics (elderly, black, wrong religion, etc); 'winners' are executed (televised, of course)

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Good thing GOPers don't read much---scifi has many ways to solve prob of poor (Original Post) bobbieinok Feb 2018 OP

Carousel... Wounded Bear Feb 2018 #1

I think they do sarah FAILIN Feb 2018 #2

Read the Mars Trilogy roscoeroscoe Feb 2018 #3

Kim Stanley Robinson was the best Blue_Adept Feb 2018 #6

Or books with a modest proposal lunasun Feb 2018 #4

Only some scifi Nonhlanhla Feb 2018 #5

Wounded Bear

(58,726 posts)

1. Carousel...

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 01:28 AM

Feb 2018

based on income instead of age, of course.

sarah FAILIN

(2,857 posts)

2. I think they do

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 01:36 AM

Feb 2018

Cutting access to healthcare and food stamps seems to get the job done.

roscoeroscoe

(1,370 posts)

3. Read the Mars Trilogy

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 04:12 AM

Feb 2018

Utopian combination of technical problem solving and anti-capitalist action

Blue_Adept

(6,402 posts)

6. Kim Stanley Robinson was the best

Reply to roscoeroscoe (Reply #3)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 09:42 AM

Feb 2018

The Red Mars novel was like a how-to guide to getting it done.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

4. Or books with a modest proposal

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Wed Feb 7, 2018, 09:22 AM

Feb 2018

Nonhlanhla

(2,074 posts)

5. Only some scifi

Reply to bobbieinok (Original post)

Wed Feb 7, 2018, 09:28 AM

Feb 2018

Earlier style scifi (Star Trek, for example), actually operated with socialist-type solutions to poverty. More recent scifi "solved" poverty in the above-mentioned ways - examples of hypercapitalism.

By the way, I highly recommend "Altered Carbon" on Netflix. Disturbing, graphic, but very interesting scifi noir that shows a world with hypercapitalism (including immortality for the 1%).

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