Today, there are people that actually move like (programmed) game characters.
If they would only dress the part, then it could be interesting. Dressed as their favourite in-game characters?
Helas, no one of them do, they dress like everyone else, they just happen to move in a particularly strange way and I for one find that unsettling.
It is related to the immensely popular mass media stories. Living your life through fiction or living your life consuming a fiction.
For example two of them are located in NYC, with wardrobes that are ridiculously costly and groups of people that know each other.
They never seem to: work, hesitate, sleep, stress, clean, dust, make dishes, pay bills, taxes, wash their clothes or anything else? They never ever do anything?
Then there’re all the super naturals, the eternal zombie hunters and the million and one forensic scientists who surely do not do anything of that sort.
However, you are probably not the female nor the male lead character in any of these fictions? You know very few, I dear say none that could be any of them? Yet, somehow the fictional “lifestyle” presented has now become everyone’s norm and right?
I suggest that there are many too many people seemingly believing exactly that. In all honesty, how could anyone believe that? That would entail luxury for the majority or luxury for the common man? But, that’s simply ridiculous.
I may add that even suggesting how unreasonable the proposition is will cause you serious problems. So I advice not doing so. No, not really.
Why? Well, anything that is in principle accessible to all is by definition not luxurious. And that is really not a monetary question.
It may be something that not only the UAE, CN or US may want to consider, the rest of the World may want to consider that too. Example: the majority of Sweden’s (Europe’s) homeowners are “millionaires” except from the fact that their property is actually owned by a bank that has in turn loaned its funds.
The bank deals in virtual assets and those assets are funded by other banks much larger than themselves and they are in turn funded by much larger systems, like IMF and the so-called global market place.
The “global market place” is at best controlled by machines or by nothing at all. It is much harder to achieve true randomness than one would assume. Actually it is quite hard to achieve it in a mathematically sense, enter the human agent. I’m sad, I’m glad, I believe in or don’t believe in, it’s unusually warm/cold/normal for the season, etc.
The global market place defines every aspect of your life from your birth to your death. The cost and labor involved in dying in dignity is quite high, in case you did not know that.
The current system is based on a fiction… it is make-believe, it is not real.
Most likely your: boy/girl/boy/girl/neutral/mother/father/friend will not be able to offer you an apartment in central NY with a walk-in-closet as a casual gift. And your shoes or handbag are not worth your monthly salary are they (it is a trick question), if they are can you truly afford them or do they actually belong to the bank?
Not now or ever. Why? Because it is all fictional, it is make-believe. It has nothing to do with reality. “You know? For kids?”
Picture: “It has to be the shoes right?” The shoe? Well, it’s right here, and yes, it is all about the shoes. For the record I’m not partial to this brand. It suited the narrrative of this text that’s all. A nice looking shoe nevertheless at least if you ask me.