This is silly. A tax is something the government charges you. We'll be paying a privately owned corporation for our their air.
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"Every time we demand to be heard, they hold back our water, ration our air, until we crawl back into our holes, and do as we are told!"
And that's why you should always have a can of PerriAir at home!
joke about the air, but in a few short years we're going to be paying for climate control like that because we're in for one hell of a summer here, and from here on out they'll only get hotter.
On the other hand, some Nazi might own quadrillion dollars by then. Think about that.
They flag you as a terrorist because the AI hallucinated, and you find your pay for air button just does not work anymore one day.
And once you're pissed enough at the AI, ICE will deport you El Salvador, because the AI tech bros have lobbied out a law that labels all anti-AI activities as an act of terror on behalf of China.
The DHS fusion centers are already flagging anti-AI comments and memes as possible terrorist activity: https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/
Luckily in the main timeline, they can eat a bullet themselves for attempting that.
So many dystopian novel authors predicted this. P K Dick and Gibson among others. Forced to pay for life critical necessities like air and water, as well as fees to enter your apartment or take a shower.
Companies have given up making anything new. It takes too long, requires a large R&D investment, and expensive tooling to manufacture new things. So they just start making up ways to claim ownership over everything they can and the delivery method to get it there. Robber barons and bridge trolls profiteering as middlemen that actually produce nothing. Want a concert ticket? Buy it through a service that bought it from the venue and pay fees on top of that if you can get them at all on release, if not pay again to the same company that lets scalpers resell and they get fees a second time. Want music? Pay for the data service, pay for the music service, pay again for the album if you actually want to keep it, pay for the cloud you store it in.
Itβs only getting worse.
Bed think literally already happened, some amazon smart bed or some shit that was adjustable and it would fold shut like a clam if you didn't pay the subscription so you physically couldn't sleep on it.
Pod8, not Amazon related but a like 3-8000 dollar mattress topper that can heat or cool depending on a number of factors. The model that adjusts temp is server sided so it will work without a subscription (for now) but just in basic βset tempβ mode, when itβs sold as this device that tracks heart rate and movement to dynamically adjust temp. Tech bros with no kids and too much cash love it
It also stops working if Amazon web services go down, which is hilarious (which is maybe why people link it to Amazon, but thatβs a different and worse problem where Amazon controls like 50% of the internet through data hosting)
Never heard of this one. Eight sleep smart bed would revert to basic features if you didn't pay subscription though.
Woke up this morning.
$5 convenience fee for that.
For an extra $3 per day, your wake up can include no headache. Please provide your credit card information to subscribe
You joke, but people with chronicle chronic headache will find that a great deal. No side effect, though.
Philip k. Dick, in his novel Ubik, described the main character being trapped in his apartment because the front door required a .25 fee to open and the MC had to trick the door in order to leave his own home.
There's a lot more than that in the book. It would be interesting to see someone try and fail to make a film out of it.
That's been the joke for a long time. If corporations could charge you for air, they would. This comic is too real.
People are buying water right now as we speak.
Oh, yeah, I'm waiting for the water wars to start. Already have in some middle eastern countries. But, I'm sure they'll reach richer countries as well like the U.S. eventually.
Climate change isn't going to wait for us to care.
War... war never changes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_water_wars?wprov=sfla1

Doesn't seem much different than now
Whatever happens, I'll never forget to charge my Wife Pro Max.
A capitalist's dream come true! ... remember, socialism is bad π
Well this is just utterly ridiculous. Yes some things are annoyances but this is just an utter extreme
Change it to 2035 or 2040 and check back. I'll bet you for your air conditioning credits against my houseplant allowances that it's more like this than not.
Here you go. Glad I could help.
Please, they're not reading that. They're just going to get upset at their own invented problem.




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