• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    109·
    4 months ago

    Don’t forget:

    • Out of control sea level rise due to climate change, which is why they all live up in the sky

    • Mutants in the lower levels

        • TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.worldEnglish
          20·
          4 months ago

          Harvey Birdman: Mr. Boo Boo, would you consider yourself a revolutionary?

          Boo Boo: Well, no. But I believe corporations rob us of our dignity and independence, and that these systems must be ripped down, or levelled by any force necessary… But that’s just one little bear’s opinion.

          Harvey Birdman: A cute, fuzzy little bear. (smiles at jury) The defense rests

        • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          16·
          4 months ago

          Just searched, and it looks like you’re correct.

          Also, apparently there’s an episode where Spacely and Cogswell are arguing about real estate and they discuss a rule of Orbit City which requires all buildings to be at least 2200 feet off the ground (I assume from their “bottom”), which would make their homes roughly the top floors of the Burj Khalifa

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      11·
      4 months ago

      I still like the theory that the “mutants” below are just the Flintstones. The Jetson society hoarded all the technology and moved into the sky to get away from the peasants…

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
    43·
    4 months ago

    A family of 4 living in an apartment with the dad having absolutely no job security? They really did predict the future.

    • candyman337@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      4 months ago

      Tbh the Jetsons was always a capitalist dystopia we were just seeing a white upper class family that benefitted from it

      • Perfide@reddthat.com
        18·
        4 months ago

        Yup. Even if you ignore the theory that Earths surface is the post-apocalyptic “stone-age” setting of The Flintstones, it’s still reasonable to conclude that the people in The Jetsons live in the sky because they trashed the planet.

  • anarchoilluminati [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    4·
    4 months ago

    Not even close to the 9-hour workweek.

    Hence that remarkable phenomenon in the history of Modern Industry, that machinery sweeps away every moral and natural restriction on the length of the working-day. Hence, too, the economic paradox, that the most powerful instrument for shortening labour-time, becomes the most unfailing means for placing every moment of the labourer’s time and that of his family, at the disposal of the capitalist for the purpose of expanding the value of his capital. “If,” dreamed Aristotle, the greatest thinker of antiquity, “if every tool, when summoned, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it, just as the creations of Daedalus moved of themselves, or the tripods of Hephraestos went of their own accord to their sacred work, if the weavers’ shuttles were to weave of themselves, then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers, or of slaves for the lords.” And Antipatros, a Greek poet of the time of Cicero, hailed the invention of the water-wheel for grinding corn, an invention that is the elementary form of all machinery, as the giver of freedom to female slaves, and the bringer back of the golden age. Oh! those heathens! They understood, as the learned Bastiat, and before him the still wiser MacCulloch have discovered, nothing of Political Economy and Christianity. They did not, for example, comprehend that machinery is the surest means of lengthening the working-day.

    marx-doomer , Das Kapital.