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Re:Senior Citizens Struggle with Suicide as Loneliness and I... by UnFleshedOne on Monday July 29, 2019 @05:49PM (#20559822)
That must be how the Matrix got started -- create a few cookie-cutter retirement communities, have most of them get taken over by a few management companies, have the most ruthless one of those take over whole market and start earnestly geri-farming people for their social security paychecks, optimize and streamline operations, iterate on that enough and you end up with rows of pods with people in VR. Put them in from the birth to improve adaptation metrics and extend useful paycheck receiving time.

Matrix is the result of paperclip optimization process on a retirement home concept.

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Re:Senior Citizens Struggle with Suicide as Loneliness and I... by 11thEarlOfMar on Monday July 29, 2019 @06:21PM (#20560069)
It’s a not-for-profit Corp, owned by the community. Perhaps held in trust.

If the community voted to sell at any point, then I suppose yes, they could wind up in The Matrix. Though, most of them saw the movies, so I’d guess they’d know to void that fate.

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