"We must begin redefining the parameters of what constitutes 'work'! It's simply unconscionable to..."?
Click.
Such was the rhetoric of the day.
Rico turns off the wall-v.
WV.
Turns off the Presidential world elections of 2050. [1]
He was tired of hearing the messianic message of the Technocrats.
After all, it was they who had caused Rico to have no job.
They who made Rico poor.
Rico turns on his podcast via his mirror-radio (called MR, or Mister, for short).
A strong, yet soft, unassuming voice slips through:
"No man appreciates mass miracles
When he ain't got a job.
Mass miracles too mass-produced...
They feel... false.
Generic.
It is the age of the banal miracle.
The blasé Messiah.
The casually disdainful "Heaven on Earth."
We live in the post-scarcity world, or so they say...
Yet, there is something awfully scarce.
Something lost...
We've lost somethin' folks.
We lost our soul... when we lost our jobs.
Our means to live...
Our means to produce.
It was the sweat of the brow, coupled with the cool breeze...
That was our peace.
Our peace of mind.
It's not graphene gadgets.
Nor silicon toys...
They don't bring us that peace...
They've turned Jesus into a machine...
It's hard work, work of our hands, work of our legs and backs!
Good ole' fashioned labor!
That's what it means to be man! To be a human being!
Without it, we are hardly human...
Barely being.
We've lost many a good soul to suicide these latter days because life without work is as being lost in the woods without sight...
If you're feeling lost brothers and sisters, lost in today's false idol, fabricated world, then you know where to go!
Come join us at Eden Colony!
Where we can freely use the bodies given to us!
God gave us these bodies for labor, as we gave him company... Together we can bring that peaceful garden back!
We can find our satisfaction day in and day out!
Many hands make light labor!
And our hands are growing!
So come with us!
Come work with your hands
And find a life fulfilled!
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Techno Underworld
Science FictionThe year is 2050. The world has entered into an Age of Post-scarcity under the influence of a one world government which was forged by a conglomerate of tech companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tencent etc.). Rico is a citizen of this world Techn...
