Asklemmy

44331 readers

880 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

115

It's Groundhog Day, but everyone's experiencing the loop. What are some daily patterns that would begin to emerge? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

96 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Tangentially related:

All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka
Through the Flash in Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

If we all retain our memory, as is usual for a time loop, then we all have agency in the next loop, as is usual for a time loop, and the only things that "repeat" are natural things like acts of nature.

So eventually we would know where the things happen and they would become sources of energy. Billionaires would buy them and other means of life, everyone would become dependent on something that the oligarchy would gain control of, and everything would be the same as it is now, essentially.

Possibly they threaten the masses with quick death unless they serve is some capacity? I'm being terribly pessimistic, but I do think all it takes are a couple of assholes to ruin things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That's an interesting take. People are indeed whipped already, with money being the carrot. In a time loop I can definitely see the powerful threatening nukes to "incentivize" everyone.

Though, I think this would only be a pattern in the early stages. Once you've been nuked, you get used to it, and the threat wears off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

How are the money not reset? People working as "transaction secretaries" to uphold the oligarchy is very slim