Notice how the "positive vision" implies citizens hooked to their VR visors while corporate power goes literally hand in hand with the machines. Also, that single working guy (which just HAS to be a white male) seems to have a huge salary, given the amount of shit dem drones and driverless cars are delivering...
@Antanicus they left out the ceo and elite
@datatitian
Isn't opportunism the distinguishing trait of all conservative institutions? Side with the strong, side with the winning...
@Antanicus @eribloodlust I always saw it as more like rationalization. Not "be conservative to get richer" but "I have what I have because I am a strong, hard working winner, so I don't need to have any guilt about those who have less"
@datatitian @eribloodlust I was thinking more of the political and clerical institutions at large, as in "X class seems to be winning the game, let's side with them no questions asked". The vatican's been practicing this sport since forever, the republican party in the post-Reagan era is another example
@eribloodlust @Antanicus interestingly, nothing about the scene on the right makes it a different future from the left scene. It looks more like just the perspectives of different classes in the same world. The message then being not "let's prevent dystopia" but "better pick the right team as we leap head first into it"