Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state
by howinteresting on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:16AM
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Singapore is a real Omelas situation, where the little boy is all the migrant workers that underpin society. (Of course, the same criticism can be leveled at the US as well.)
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Re:Singapore’s tech-utopia and surveillance state
by handrous on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:17PM
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Every country is a real Omelas situation—I don't think we're meant to read it and go "man, sucks to have to make that choice," but, "oh, it's an allegory for the society I actually live in".
The entire global economy is one, too, in fact. Not to spoil it, but that's something The Good Place ends up wrestling with by the end.