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A Boring Dystopia
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What's dystopian is a child having to work to pay for their mother's tombstone in the first place.
Maybe. Maybe she felt powerless and wanted to do something, anything, to feel like she was contributing during the process. Without more context its hard to say. People act in weird ways when loved ones die, maybe she's channeling her pain into something productive.
Valid point. I wish I could read the article, but I'm not disabling my dns server to do it.
Karli had not had insurance, and on top of the grief felt from her loss, her family was tasked with thinking of ways to pay for her funeral costs.
“We started doing stuff to come up with money to cover it all, and Emouree started this little lemonade stand,” Bordner said.
Apparently you just as I did not read the article. After actually reading it, it seems that the girl is just a generous person and likes helping others. Nowhere does it specifically say they did jot have the funds for the tombstone and it might just be her way of coping. The title does still make it sound hella dystopian though.
Karli had not had insurance, and on top of the grief felt from her loss, her family was tasked with thinking of ways to pay for her funeral costs.
“We started doing stuff to come up with money to cover it all, and Emouree started this little lemonade stand,” Bordner said.
Choose one.
Dystopia doesn't mean what you think it does. Hint: it is not existence of poor people. It doesn't have anything to do with poor people at all.
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my point is that poor does not automatically imply dystopian and therefor ~~your~~ a suggestion to the contrary (choose between "poor" and "not dystopian") is not true, as can be seen in this handy matrix
poverty is attribute that can be present in dystopia, but it is not a necessity.
in most major dystopias in popular culture (1984, Fahrenheit 451, blade runner, logan's run) the poverty is not the defining factor.
and on the opposite side, people can be poor, struggling through hardships, but still be looking for a bright future instead of feeling oppressed or dystopian.
as can be seen in scifi colonization stories or in real life communities in poor countries. despite lacking the wealth of the top 10% of western population, without our mortgages or antidepressants (or maybe just because of that), they can be much happier.
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yeah, i missed that part.
You're the type of person this sub targets, buddy.
I'm sure you think the teacher who had to have their colleagues donate sick time so they could be with their child with cancer, or the kid who sold candles to pay for his friend's wheelchair is heartwarming too.
The whole point is that people having to do stuff like that in the first place is bad, and is the result of a very sick society.