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Would it be dystopian if we don't even own our right to live anymore?
I'd disagree we have a right to live in the first place. If it was a right, we could refuse it. But that's actually illegal.
What we have is an obligation to live, not a right. And so we're already not in control in the first place.
In the US we're sort of at that point to some lesser degree. There is no right to food, water, shelter, or healthcare, so if you don't sell yourself (or work for yourself) you don't get to eat and therefore would die.
Sorry, what is your question? Seems like more of a showerthought, no? Whether something is dystopian or not is a matter of opinion to some degree.
R&G
I think you mean RNG, random number generator :)
You never heard of "Rhythm & Glues"?
The rambling 'questions' like this are bot posts.
Oh. ... why? Also, how does a bot write "R&G" instead of "RNG"? I'm not disputing, I'm just confused.
Don't know why, and maybe the prompt says to occasionally make a mistake or something? Or could be hand edited after it was generated, but I also don't know why.
Ask women in red States
Do they become uterine landladies?
We're already there, it just looks different than what you describe. Food, shelter, and healthcare all require money in the US. Sure you have some free will, but does it ultimately matter? Are you really gonna go be a homesteader and live off the grid?
You have to work- sell your time, rent your brain and body out to whoever you can find to pay for it. You are unlikely to ever truly own the place you live. Either rent or long term mortgage, someone can come kick you out of your home if you don't constantly prove your worth. You must pay for your food, even the basics. Without selling a part of your life, you don't eat. In that case, how much of your life do you really own?
Beyond that, nobody chooses to get sick. Especially not so sick that they can no longer work. But of course, it happens. Are you valuable enough for medical care? Have you sold enough of your life to earn healthcare, even when you can't work?
Do you, as a human resource, generate enough value that you will continue to be fueled, stored, and maintained?
The right to live is the most basic one of all the basic human rights.
Only few countries do not guarantee it. Usa is among them, unfortunately.
However, the right to live is endangered in some so-called "modern" societies, as outlined in the post here, and yes, then we are quickly in quite evil and dystopian scenarios 🤐
Folks, remember to fight for the right to live and the protection of human life.
As usual, there is a sci-fi story for this: The Unincorporated Man.
Every individual is incorporated at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over his or her own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares, a task made difficult given the long life spans now possible.
Haven't read it yet though.
I think it won't be necessarily body parts that become subscription services, though that could happen in the future if organ donations and/or genetic modification became privatised around the world, but I do think that certain implants will phase into human life and become near-essential, and those can be monetised. Like modern day smartphones and computers with all their tracking, subscriptions, and microtransactions, except it's NFC chips in your hand or brain chips for controlling everyday electronics.
If we've learned anything in these last decades, it's that rights are easily taken away. Not sure whether can be called dystopian exactly, it's hard to see where the line is. Some argue we've arrived at dystopia already.
Thats not even the scariest part.
The scary reality is, in many places, its proving these rights never even existed at all or only nominally in a way that foreseeably could not withstand obvious threats.
Roe v. Wade is a classic example of this. It wasnt actually an established right, it was litigated in a specific way that lead to it never being enshrined, it was little more than a stopgap, there has never been an actual right to abortion and freedom from federal+state charges where the government changes their tune on whether they want to be able to control and punish women they dont like or want to suffer.
In canada, fuckheads can rant and rave till they're foaming at the mouths and hypertensive but they cant do fuckall about it. Its enshrined as a right but also as freedom from criminal prosecution in the actual criminal justice system since Morgantaeler was aquitted
When do you reckon a right truly exists?
When it's been enshrined into law? I reckon it would take just as much (or little) effort to get it back out.
"There are no rights, we made the whole thing up"- George Carlin
People put way too much faith in "rights" and laws when it's all ultimately a social construct that has to be enforced by people. It all goes away if nobody is willing or able to enforce it. There's no inherent natural force compelling those in power to respect your rights
Until its been litigated and the State loses miserably and has to redo their criminal system so its not a crime that can be pursued or if theres some fucked up civil bounty system like that popped up in the US it needs to bankrupt whoever is involved and preferably sanction them irreparably in some way that lays down the law, whatever right or entitlement doesnt mean shit.
These things need to be made independant, beyond arms reach, and there needs to be civil liabillity for anyone (including the leaders and elite) that is sufficiently devastating that they know to stop touching the hot stove. The result on their victims is devastsring if they are successful so the impact needs to devastate them and their continued abillity to fuck around
If capitalism is allowed to continue unchecked and technology advanced to the points you mention, then life will become subscription based.
That’s assuming we, as a species, l even make it that far.
Capitalism = infinite growth, which can only end in disaster at some point, yet here we are.