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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by EthanHeilman on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:40PM (#18860482)
The dystopian novel "We" tells the story of a society which encompass all aspects of your life, in both physical and mental worlds.

>"We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

I'm not sure why they would invite the comparison in both mission and name,

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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by lainga on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @08:42PM (#18861595)
Everything in We was made of glass, even the buildings, so everyone could see everyone else at all times. It was sort of like one giant coworking space.
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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by EthanHeilman on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:46PM (#18862088)
I went looking for a good quote from "We" to capture that, but I didn't manage to find a chunk of text that was self-contained enough.

"If you want a picture of the future imagine a human trapped in a glass co-working space -forever" - George Orwell ...probably

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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by sbensu on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @12:11AM (#18862442)
Wow, I thought you were making that up to fit the mood... until the Wikipedia article. This is bananas.
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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by gota on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @04:37AM (#18863527)
It is rare to find something too good to be true that is, indeed, true. I don't know why this amuses me so much.
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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by azernik on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:30PM (#18860841)
I mean, "Soylent"?
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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by na85 on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:32PM (#18861228)
The dystopia we inhabit is different than the one that produced Soylent Green, to the point that the comparison is humorous and edgy.

The same cannot be said for We.

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Re:WeWork Gets a Visit from Financial Reality by oth001 on Wednesday January 09, 2019 @01:05AM (#18862674)
Seems similar to Soylent, minus the mission statement.
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