• Lumisal@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Aren’t the wealthy in Idiocracy also, well, idiots?

    I thought the thing was everyone was an idiot

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah, but it is because the rich people in modern times didn’t have kids while poor people were, even having significant resources given to them to allow them to survive and reproduce.

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        4 hours ago

        I don’t know if they were portrayed as “rich”, but just a couple that was very careful and considered about everything. A clean and organized and empty house being a consequence of that. While trying to fit children in “properly” they never found the time.

        Certainly the two preserved people were not rich.

        Also, I don’t think the message was that “poor people” should not reproduce " as your eugenics claim asserts, think the takeaway would be that folks should find some happy medium, the people let planning and anxiety get too in the way of having the children they wanted, and the other example needed at least some more responsible sensibilities.