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-Ok-Perception- t1_j2dqlei wrote
Reply to In opposite : could you list things cheap today that will be unaffordable in 2030 ? (and why) by salutbobby
Lobster and crab.
Not necessarily cheap today, but within the range of the normal working man (to have on occasion, not every night obviously).
Both lobster and crab are declining sharply from over-harvesting and climate change.
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There's a number of fish as well that are becoming seriously overfished so the price will go insane and/or they will become very hard to find. Last I checked, the season for orange roughy is literally down to just two days per year to compensate for how over-harvested it is.
-Ok-Perception- t1_j1zogr7 wrote
Reply to comment by SG420123 in In Return to Oz (1985) the nightmare fueled sequel to the Wizard of Oz, why do so many of the characters look completely different from the first film? by ilovemychickens
Tik Tok himself was nightmare fuel..... everything in the whole damn movie was.
That's the magic of it. It's truly the most horrific horror movie made for kids, it's far more terrifying than horror movies for adults too.
-Ok-Perception- t1_j1znw67 wrote
Reply to In Return to Oz (1985) the nightmare fueled sequel to the Wizard of Oz, why do so many of the characters look completely different from the first film? by ilovemychickens
Because it was not canon with the original film.
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Also, Return to Oz is a great fucking movie. I'd like to see more of the Baum formula adapted with that same nightmarish vibe.
This is the best "kids movie" of the 80s, I put that in quotation marks because it gave me nightmares, but it's still a fucking awesome movie.
-Ok-Perception- t1_iyf9yic wrote
I'm pretty sure the problem was murder, murder, murder, and more murder.
Many children died of illness back in ancient times, so poisoning them was a very effective means of ensuring the current emperor didn't have an heir, and there were so many poisons that just looked like a natural death from disease.
And not to mention a lot of their heirs by blood or adopted heirs were generals and which made "assassination on the field of battle" an option.
So yeah, both biological heirs tended to die en masse and even the adopted ones. Usually by the time the next emperor was selected, it was the emperor's fourth or fifth choice. Not the one they would have preferred.
-Ok-Perception- t1_j5y9l3o wrote
Reply to homeownership rate will be over 80% in the future because everyone will be able to own at least a small condo in low cost of living places due to remote work and indoor living. by Pitiful-Internal-196
Nah, as we can see now, any available land/homes/property is just being purchased up by big corporate landlords. And pay is always calculated to be the barest minimum they can pay, yet keep you coming in. Rent is calculated to be the absolute maximum you can afford.
As time goes on the wealthy constantly chisel away at the net worth of the peasants. We're rapidly returning to feudalism.
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Has the working class seen 2 cents of all the value created by new manufacturing technology? No, they've just used that technology to work people harder, for less pay.