Why tf would I want to travel in VR. Might as well just keep gaming. This is the sort of misunderstanding of human desires that lead to Facebook throwing many billions in the hole.
I feel like we should give up on useless business travels that could just as well have been a call if it wasn’t for arbitrary expectations before we give up on traveling for joy.
And no matter how distaful I find the tourism industry, it’s a main source of income for many regions.
business travels that could just as well have been a call
So many useless fucking meetings
I over heard my partner on a zoom call with some executive at a major hardware retailer and all I remember from it was 1) him saying the phrase “on the gold standard in 2026” and 2) him rambling in a way that could basically be summed up as “good customer service make customers like us so we should do that”
This is the sorta stuff that feels like they say purely to rattle the right wing conspiracy theorists. The “you vill own nothing und be happy” clique.
Like the system of intl’ travel is the only thing holding up half the world’s economy; Not just in a literal sense, but from how many workers are so deeply entrenched in renteeism that their disposable income can only be spent on brief respites via travel to offset that crippling alienation.
These guys who parrot the last dystopian flick they watched as “policy” are as unserious as the fascists who latch onto them for propaganda of what (((they))) are planning for us. Like, no motherfucker!!! The system of systems is alienating us from physical reality as the resources underpinning our modern lives are diverted to those who have always owned them in common!!!
Andrew Sorkin of the FAILING NEW YORK TIMES! Literally the only thing I agree with Trump on.
This is basically the plot for Total Recall by (of course) Paul Verhoeven.
It’s funny how he just assumes the poor will even have virtual reality headsets. Or even want to rent them for a meta-cation.
The reality for the poor is we don’t travel. That’s it. We have our imaginations, as long as they can’t figure out a way to steal them.
I’m not poor and traveling anywhere more than a state or two away is prohibitively expensive. I can’t go to my family reunion this year - the first one in twenty years - because the domestic fight to cross not even half the country is $3k.
