I’m currently watching Futurama for the first time because i always kinda thought it was cool when i was younger.
I recognize now how much it sucks.
The major thing that annoys me is that it displays the world in the year 3000 as if people would still have to hold down a job to earn enough money to live. The idea of full-employment sickens me. In my mind, i exclusively do tedious things in the hope that some day, they won’t ever have to be done again. Like software development. Linux only has to be written once. Once functional, it basically lasts forever, or at least close to (only minor modifications need to be made, like adaptations to a new protocol or sth).
The very idea that people will still have to work in the year 3000 is very repulsive. It shows that society hasn’t matured enough yet. I hope this is not the future that we actually end up with.
It actually shows society being destroyed by aliens and being rebuilt again somewhere in the time between
It’s very clearly a satire of its time and place, rather than an actual prediction of the future, culture not having progressed at all, despite more advanced tech existing. It seems weird to single out professions existing as the example rather than all the other examples - American capitalism is present in all of it, and criticised in several places
ok then i guess the time that the series is developed in sucks …
That is indeed the point :)
