Finished Walkaway last night. It’s the hard utopian bit of wonderful you need in dark times. To live in the first days of a better nation, you have to build and believe that you can be in that nation before it is supported.
In Walkaway, the rich keep getting richer, the poor get poorer, the middle class is gutted out of society, fearfully scrambling to keep out of poverty and ignoring how close they are to being out on the street. Automation keeps progressing and the uber wealthy don’t need surplus people.
There’s no death camps, there’s just no jobs and no safety net and no healthcare for the unneeded.
So some folks walk away from money and just do for each other. That’s a threat to the base of a greed-sick society, so that society moves to protect itself.
The police are sent to deal with these terrorists and thieves.
The walkaway road is very hard and very dangerous and some people die.
I’m more energized than before to act to fix the place where I love, because what I do matters. (You too.)
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