Comment by moomoo11
15 hours ago
I think this would be good for the people living in overcrowded, polluted and dirty cities in the world (let's be honest, they actually exist regardless of how that happened or why).
Maybe they can unplug from 500+ AQI pollution and spend time with their loved ones and friends in a simulated clean world?
Imagine working for 10-12 hours a day, and you come home to a pod (and a building could house thousands of pods, paid for by the company) where you plug in and relax for a few hours. Maybe a few more decades of breakthroughs can lead to simulated sleep as well so they get a full rest.
Wake up, head to the factory to make whatever the developed world needs.
(holy fuck that is a horrible existence but you know some people would LOVE for that to be real)
Hook it up to an always-on fle*light, and I'm sure you'd have millions of paying customers.
Except you'll never have to leave your pod. Extract the $$ from their attention all day, then sell them manufactured virtual happiness all night. It's just a more streamlined version of how many people live right now.
I'll be running away from that hellscape, thanks.
Sounds similar to the black mirror ep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
There are posters in this very thread chain who want this reality to come to pass.
I mean if I'm totally honest, it could be beneficial to me if something like this comes to be. Even in the developed world, we have a bunch of annoying people who complain/cry constantly about dumb things. They do that instead of doing something, whereas I can excuse the people trapped in hellholes overseas because it really isn't their fault they were oppressed and mistreated.
They'd have their own economy and "life" and leave the rest of us alone. It would be completely transactional, so I'd have zero reason to feel bad if they do it voluntarily.
If they can be happy in a simulated world, and others can be happy in the real world, then everyone wins!