Star Trek predicts what Trump will do to the Unemployed

At the time, I did not see it as a realistic future.

And now, I very much do.

The logical result of all of this heavy-handed, modern-day capitalism is a future such as portrayed in the first Robocop movie. It's all run by the corporations.

DS9 had some good sci-fi when it wasn't being a lame soap opera.

as a kid. I was 11 at the time but even at that young age I didn't find it believable that things could ever get that bad. I felt that way because it was the 90's and at the time it felt like we were going to ride on an economic boom forever.

I grew up on the Trek original series. I wanted that future.

The grand capitalists stole that future from us. It's as if, collectively, they want to destroy the planet.

Climate change is profitable. It will open the Arctic to shipping and oil drilling.

It will make it so that only Monsanto crops will grow.

We will all be sick from pollution, non-nutritious food, and cosmic rays, and hopelessly dependent on pharmaceuticals.

It will be worse for you. You will live through more of it than I.

Keeping yourself physically and mentally fit is your best defense.

it became a premier commentary on the MIC (at the time).

that's prescient. What the pukes and the kook brothers want to do to large swathes of the population.

No work, no services, no mercy.

This is not the country I grew up in, or one in which I want to live.

I actually believed/believe that would/will happen. Back in England long ago they were called debtors prisons. Our world has had them once and it looks like we will have them again.