• fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    It seems implied that they have labor and work as a means of control and less because they need to. Most of the work seemed to be just oppressing people like him.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t see any attempt at the movie’s part showing that the products they were making weren’t somehow used by the citizens of Elysium. The droids are everywhere, implying that they fulfill a need based on what remaining manufacturing can be done on world.

      It’s not meant to portray a society that has a fully automated economy, it’s about one that relies on the other for creating goods that will be used and priced out of the range of the laborers who created it.