See Autofac by PKD.
Short Story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autofac
read the short story as a kid, always stuck w me. more relevant than ever with the continual drive towards efficiency and consumption fueled by amazon et al. the tv ep unfortunately changed the ending in a way that completely lost the character of the original (imo). still interesting but less dickian.
See Charles Stross' Singularity Sky (aka Escaton Book #1).
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/81992.Singularity_Sky
https://textarchive.ru/c-2418451-pall.html
In which a materially-post-scarcity society called The Festival liters a world with telephones that all make the same offer.
“Entertain us and we will give you anything you want.”
Reminds me of this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719719.The_Garbage_Chron...
Where they dump Earth's garbage on another planet, that has life forms based on fruit people. Willy Watermelon Attorney at Law.
More Douglas Adams than Star Wars.
True! Reminds me of the fate of the Poghrils[1] and (to a lesser extent) the Shoe Event Horizon[2].
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/p/756092
Reminds me of the Billy the Galactic Hero. Where one solution for waste management was to ship it off-world. As post-packets...
Re:Goodwill doesn't want broken toasters
by ineedasername on Friday May 07, 2021 @11:36PM
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MCU beat them to it with the trash planet in Thor: Ragnarok.
Planet is bombed, human suffering, etc. Then, because of light speed travel, minutes later broken lamps and broken toasters fall from run down ’good will’ ships that finish off the planet.