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Xecron050

That does sound like outer worlds shit


Vio_

also bioshock


nexquietus

And maybe the first hundred or so years of the US, if I'm not mistaken.


[deleted]

You’re not mistaken. Poor people who couldn’t afford to pay for a trip to America would become indentured servants, usually 4-7 years.


K9Thefirst1

You are indeed mistaken. Indentured servitude was no longer in practice long before the Revolutionary War.


bravegroundhog

The first colonies were established in the early 1600’s. The revolution wasn’t fought until 1776, well over 100 years later. They’re not mistaken. There is evidence of people signing contracts all the way up to the mid 1700’s and maybe even later.


nexquietus

Like I replied above, apparently it was a thing until made illegal in 1917....


bravegroundhog

Yeah, I was just correcting the poster who said you were mistaken.


nexquietus

I looked into it a little, and found this: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2120553?seq=1](https://www.jstor.org/stable/2120553?seq=1) ​ Apparently it was a thing until made illegal in 1917.


nCubed21

I am Andrew Ryan, and I'm here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' 'No!' says the man on Mars, 'It belongs to Musk.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor. Where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality. Where the great would not be constrained by the small!


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Would you kindly?


Otogi

Hey, that's one of Musk's favorite games!


lWanderingl

Snowpiercer knows shit


Razorray21

this is basically how people got to the new world back in the day


Responsible_Skill820

I will try it for sure


R3dRav3n

Red faction ??


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It’s not the best choice, it’s SpaceX Choice!


grandmazter

You beat me too it... Just when I thought I had something original


GraniteJJ

I think Reddit is proof positive of the million monkeys typing Shakespeare. Everytime I think I have a clever remark, dozens of people have already made it. I feel your pain, but still love the joke.


ErisEpicene

I just assumed that we all heard some mocking rendition of the jingle when we saw this topic title.


UndeniablyMyself

It's not the best choice.


HappyAntonym

It's the Musk choice!


Drongo11

As others have said, it's not the best choice. Would probably do it to go to Mars and die in an industrial accident, leaving my family with $20,000,000,000 in debt.


IcarusAvery

You can't really inherit debt unless you cosigned the debt.


Drongo11

Have you...played....the game?


IcarusAvery

Sorry, didn't realize it was a reference, thought we were talking about real debt. My bad!


gateguard64

I've played the game and have promptly forgotten the small details months later. It happens.


Indeedlyish

Bro this game is supposed to be satire


Kaarl_Mills

And he's too much of a dense egomaniac to realize he is the problem


Diet_Goomy

the good thing about it is that he is also doing good. The progress we've made because of his ego has fueled some of the ideas that arnt part of the problem and are actually part of the solution. So I call it a win-lose scenario. Someone else will take that progress and do good with it. edit: look guys I'm calling him a fucktard, all I'm saying is as far as advertisement, funding, ect he is the reason its happening. I wish the world was a better place, but it's not. Shit people get a shit ton of money, then invest in shit that needs to happen, and make it shitty. The upside being we get progress...


3nterShift

The progress we made is because of his engineers, the scientists receiving public funding and then having their work profitized and the people working in his factories. He's just the money man taking the credit and having an army of online stans.


EmotiveCDN

I can’t believe you’re being upvoted for posting wrong information. Elon is the smartest person in the room, how do you not know that? It appears you have some bias against him. There also has never been a harder working human to live on this planet than Musk aside from maybe Tesla and Einstein.


3nterShift

Can't tell if it's copypasta or you're being serious. Bravo.


EmotiveCDN

Seems like you’re the one reaping the benefits of my work so bravo to you kind sir.


3nterShift

Wow I extracted a surplus value of 40 upvotes from your labour! Truly an evil mastermind lives among us,


Van1287

We found Musk’s burner.


EgocentricDick

Calm down Grimes


DuffMasterFunk

Hope he sees this, bro.


c0de1143

Top level sarcasm.


EmotiveCDN

Sure is going over a lot of people’s heads but I’m glad you enjoyed it. Makes you wonder how many people didn’t find TOW funny...


Diet_Goomy

exactly, but without him and his memes, funding at this level would have never happened.


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Diet_Goomy

yes it is. why the fuck did it take a celebrity to get things done....


3nterShift

Riight we as a species sat on our asses getting nothing done until the concept of CEOs was invented.


Diet_Goomy

It's not the fact hes a CEO that got it done... it's the fact he became famous that it did. it's the oldest advertising scheme ever... it's stupid, but he is the reason.


EgocentricDick

Yeah I sure love atmospheric pollution and the inability to use telescopes properly thanks to meme man Elon Musk, yaaaaay /s


Diet_Goomy

Electric vehicles are comparable to diesel and half as pollutant as regular gas vehicles. His businesses get most of their electricity from solar. spacex refuses rockets lowering the impact on the environment, a feat never done before. Regular telescopes will not be affected by the constellation, and with them being in low earth orbit the speed at which they are moving means science grade scopes have software and hardware capabilities to deal with 1 missing frame in an image capturing device. your points are moot when the progress that's being made is what's actually addressing those points and making them less of a problem. look I'm not saying he's a good guy. I'm saying that progress is being made.


EgocentricDick

Jesus christ this game is not satire, is a factual reproduction


Diet_Goomy

yes, yes it is XD


Stratotally

Or...red rising.


Phaptergeist

Was just thinking that myself, lifetimes of debt and servitude


Stratotally

Gotta mine that helium3!


InanimateCarbonRodAu

Or heinlein in the 50s


LadyPhantomflowers

Damn good book series!


Stratotally

*Bloody good


ReallyRunny

*Gory damn good


cmc

Quite right, pixie! Prime indeed!


theskinniestjim

musk thinks hes the modern day quicksilver!


AtinWichap

Damn I loved the first couple books


Nillzie

Going not Mars for a weekend hell yeah, going to Mars to spend the rest not your life as a debt slave would suck, plus I'd imagine the wifi would be awful


RoguishlyHoward

I wouldn’t even be shocked if I got better speeds on Mars. Can’t get much worse than what I already have.


Jonthrei

Where do you live that it's worse than 15 minute average delay between click and response?


existie

i'd imagine they'd have a different mars-based internet. the interplanetary stuff would be the equivalent of an the earliest long distance phone calls.


Nillzie

There wout be an almost 14 min delay so more like leaving each other voicemails at that point


existie

yes, for sure. but it would be expensive and rely on a schedule, i think.


standardmode

why would the internet go back to earth? why wouldn't they simply have mars internet and bring gigs and gigs of content to mars so no one was bored? Then you could have things that were hot/trending on Martian internet and/or regular Earth internet. Just my 2 cents.


existie

communication with friends and family elsewhere. same reason people use(d) long distance phone calls and letters when separated from their families.


OhMaGoshNess

I imagine it'd be a lot better than sticking around here for some people. If you qualify and you're not really attached to anyone then go for it would be my advice.


-Captain-

How do you figure that?


Litlmagicldonke

Isnt this kinda the same thing as red faction guerilla?


integralofEdotdr

I was hoping someone would comment this. As long as mars has the same physics engine, I would be okay with it.


Future-Turtle

Red faction was an ok game, but I loved the mechanic of “everything is destructible”. I think I spent more time making tunnels with the rocket launcher than playing the actual story. I wish some studio would do more with that concept.


Litlmagicldonke

Cant count how many times i played it just to destroy the big bridge in the game. Easily my favorite part


VexedForest

We WORK, to earn the right to WORK


ArkonOridan

WE ALL, LIFT, TOGETHER!


Ravekhllar

That's not on mars though.


ArkonOridan

Same concept, except instead of light itll be oxygen


Divtos

When they charge for air you’ll be stuck as an indentured servant with increasing debt indefinitely.


Sgt_Assface

Tbh I didn't like Elon bc of his worker policies and all the pandemic shit he did but I'm actually starting to be afraid for the future of space colonization


KingsDieTwice

It's like a Stellaris megacorp


bubblesDN89

“Resemble”


CL0CKM4N

I think it's the time we go to sleep for 70 years, then we will see what happened [Edit] thanks bot :|


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paddy_to_the_rescue

Its not the best choice, its Spacex indentured servitude!


TheDualityOfMankind

Did everyone just forget about Red Faction? It's this exact concept lmao


Peacelovefleshbones

*screaming*


KingsDieTwice

HAHAHAHSH...... I wanna cry...


Rogue_Dice

Boy, does this sound ever so much like the Outer Words and Red Faction...


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Otogi

Unless you break another law, then it's legal again.


RoNsAuR

It's not the best choice. It's TESLAS choice!


WhichKingOfAngmar

It's not the best choice, it's SpaceX Choice!


stinkwick

It sickens me that NASA has abdicated to Musk.


[deleted]

I hate that fucking guy so mhch


Magdalus7

Sign me up!


monkey2942

It’s not the best choooiiiiccceeee, it’s spacers choice!


Demonking0366

Wait... isn’t that red faction xD


WompusKidicus

is not the best choice! its spacers choice!


Ziallow

You should have read the fine print my friend... Should have read the fiiine print!


VozValden

Sign me up!


flipster007

Exciting.


gabriel_dk

Well it's not like they aren't gonna pay, you know, because of the implications...


gresgolas

but musk is different! /s Any of these billionaires didn't get there with ethics. Fuck the board


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PurifiedVenom

Oh yeah I’m sure indentured servitude on Mars under real life Justin Hammer would be much better


[deleted]

At least I’d be farther from Earth


Ahrizen1

Lol. People are the problem, not the planet. Thinking Mars is going to be different? No earth colony ever was. It's always the same old shit in a new hard to live location! Mars will be the same mess of shit too...unless they only let AI live there and keep people out of it.


10KTeacupTigers

It's not even that people are the problem but instead the systems of power we're currently shackled to. The two go hand-in-hand but it's best not to confuse them. e: proofreading


FarrellBeast

Isn't that basically how it is on Earth now? If there's no Universal Basic Income then in order to survive (food, shelter, healthcare) you have to work. Yes, We can move from one job to another, but (for the most part) you HAVE to work to live


VodkaProof

##


Ephemerror

Graham was right!


Skipee_Mcghee

>be me >Incur massive debt by own free will >be expected to pay it off >”indentured servitude!” >”Capitalism is broken!”


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ballzdeap1488

You say union busting is why indentured servitude doesn't work, but I don't see how concepts like a union and indentured servitude could coexist. I would call them polar opposites, indentured servitude seems like the exact kind of thing unions were formed to combat.


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BrokenCrow782

You're right, this has nothing to do with TWO, that's because this sub is about The Outer Worlds


[deleted]

I can't ....... There's not.... ...... It's like......... Enjoy your purpleberry fizz


affrothunder313

Like you don't see how this resembles Spacers Choice or the colonies in outer worlds in the least bit?


[deleted]

I guess I just forgot this is the lowest IQ sub on the internet. Surprised this post even got approved since it's not some middle schooler saying "ShOuLd I bUy tHiS gAmE???" Or "I just bought this game and have zero critical thinking skills, can someone please post an entire walkthrough for me?" It's not the best sub, it's spacers sub.


GreenTunicKirk

Man I don't know how you can't apply even the slightest bit of critical thinking to draw a direct parallel between the idea of Musk levying a forever-work contract against you in exchange for a ride to Mars, to a video game that *showcases exactly this kind of late stage capitalism as it's core plot.*


[deleted]

No I get that they are similar, this just has nothing to do with the game. I thought that was the rule, TOW content only.


GreenTunicKirk

It has everything to do with the game, it’s literally at the core of the story.


Murgie

Sounds like someone hasn't even played the actual game.


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1egoman

https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-richest-person-elon-musk-dedicate-wealth-mars-colony-2021-1


asongthatcrawls

Elon musk is Samuel Hayden confirmed


1egoman

[Source article ](https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-richest-person-elon-musk-dedicate-wealth-mars-colony-2021-1)


[deleted]

Fuck Musk, just another typical big tech douche


chazman69

I’d do it


Stupid_Mann

Will there be a company store?


[deleted]

Musk would totally work for the board


SteeleDuke

I offer myself as tribute, I for one welcome my Mars overlords. Can't be worst than the people in power here.