Dystopian vs Future Imperfect?, Which do you play? Options

[Pendaric]

Future imperfect sliding into true dystopia.
Everything is rigged to slide even further in to the pit than it already is and only occasionally, can a courageous soul hurl back the dispair and bring back something good and pure for some precious few.

[Kagetenshi]

There is also plenty of room for Anarcho-communism. Hell, most street gangs are more communal than capitalistic. There are also plenty of street tribes and pirate families, which are anarcho-communist almost by definition.

None of which, however, are part of the Neo-Anarchist movement.

~J

[CanRay]

I'm in the camp that can't tell the difference. Today, only with magic and matrix? pretty distopian to me.

Honestly, I run it the opposite of Canray. I figure, as the megacorporate grip gets tighter, life gets worse for the people caught in it, but more slips outside of it. If you are in the corp zone, life gets worse every year. You have to use AR to see a blue sky anymore. Your bathroom breaks count against your vacation time. You buy your food from the corp using corp script, you rent your flat the same way, and you swear your salary is calculated so that it's exactly what it takes to make ends meet and pay only the interest on your debts. You can't get a better job without borrowing more money to get "highly reccommended" augmentation and finding ways to blackmail all the other canidates. You can't quit because your Non-compete clause of your contract prevents you from working for your corp's competitors for the rest of your life, and since the megas are in every market, everyone is a competitor. You can't strike because unionization is considered treason and sedition, and punished by the corp security much the same way. The world seems constantly in a state of emergency, and all the emergency powers and "temporary" measures never go away. You traded your freedom for a peice of the pie, and every year the pie gets smaller and the boss takes a bigger slice.

That isn't future imperfect... That's right now.

Yes, I have worked as Tech Support.

Yes, I am cynical.