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“Leave Before It Is Too Late To Escape”: 40 Indicators That We Live In A Dystopian Reality, As Shared By Our Community
Society is a complex web of norms and beliefs that shape our lives. However, it is not always a perfect system, and there are problems that fundamentally undermine individuals' well-being and human rights. These issues can manifest themselves in a variety of ways, ranging from systemic inequalities and discrimination to oppressive practices and restrictions on personal freedoms.
Thinking about that, I wanted to ask the Bored Panda community what they think is fundamentally wrong with society and restricts their human rights, hence "Tell me you are living in a dystopian nightmare without telling me you are living in a dystopian nightmare". Scroll down to read the answers!
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The country is run by people who are millionaires, telling everyone else that these are "tough times" and they must "cut back" to ensure their continued survival while they live in excess.
I no longer have bodily autonomy.
I can't reply directly to Mental Liberals because of the downvote count, but here's what I have to say about that. If you feel like you should be able to choose whether or not to be vaccinated, I should be able to choose whether or not to carry a child.
probably won’t get seen by op but I want to say it anyway so op is your listening I live in georgia so I not only get the abortion law but also the new transphobic one someday I hope if people all work together we can make the world a better place and you seem cool so good vibes to you
Load More Replies...Regressive so-called conservatives, so-called Christian Taliban, hate women. They are a minority but somehow have outsized political power.
Load More Replies...If I'm not people anymore, I shouldn't have to pay taxes... right? RIGHT?!?!?!!!
American women are no longer actually free. The government controls the American uterus now.
As an American woman, all I can say is, Land of the Free......for some. Republicans won't be happy until they strip us of all our rights, and make us second class citizens again.
Load More Replies...Consider if YOU were the woman. Ask whether you'd be happy to have no control over your own body
Load More Replies...George Orwell's fabulous book '1984' is no longer fiction but a commentary.
And soon we'll have to say the same about Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale."
I live in a country where two out of the last four presidents got into office by losing the popular vote.
Where one party only needs 30% of the vote to "win" because of gerrymandering.
There are women in some parts of my country who still have to get permission from their boyfriends or husbands to get birth control. They also have to fight with pharmacists who are religiously opposed to it to get birth control. And they sometimes have been denied life-improving surgery to have hysterectomies because- whether the woman wants children or not- the doctor doesn't agree with her not having children.
I live in the US.
Inability to access affordable healthcare and medication.
The American dream is a lie the rich tell to convince people to work till they die and never actually reach their goals. The moment an accident happens, you lose everything and you're told you didn't try hard enough.
Still having to go to work when you’re really sick if you want to get paid to have a roof over your head and cope with the high costs of living.
My last hospital visit was 104k , thankfully I had insurance.
Having to choose between paying my rent or buying my insulin
I have major medical issues, some of which are genetic, but if I were to become pregnant right now I could be forced to carry a (likely non-viable) baby to term and give birth. So I have decided not to date until the law is reinstated. If I don't get a choice, the men don't get a choice with me.
I agree 100%. Maybe if all women who didn't want their rights stripped could /should stop all sexual contact.
The majority of the world is at the mercy of four world leaders who are certifiably mad or who head up autocratic or oligarchic states with nuclear weapons, and we could all be annihilated in a minute if one of them gets sick of playing "Risk" with the others. Wish the entire world would just stand up to these bullies and ostracize them into oblivion.
My country's "Supreme Court," stacked with extreme reactionaries selected by men who lost the popular vote, recently ruled that: 1) The environment is not worth protecting, 2) Women are brood cows, 3) Guns are more important than human life, 4) The 1st Amendment to the Constitution is null and void so government monies must go to religious schools.
Having to have multiple roommates as an adult because we can't afford our own places (and we all have at least one full time job!) I love it here.
There is a literal war going on in the civilized world, literally one country away from where I live. If the media doesn't cover it, nobody cares.
funny though no one gives a f**k about the saudis bombing the yemenis with american weapons.
When I grow up I’ll never pay off college debt and will live in a crappy house (if I’m lucky) because it’s all I can afford.
When I grow up, I won't live in a crappy house. That's because I wouldn't even be able to afford one
Can’t get disability funding without trying all treatments first. Can’t get treatments first without funding.
The world is literally burning to the ground because of global warming yet people who don’t even make a living wage spend what little money they have to pay to watch the show of a talentless family and buy their “beauty” products while members of that family take their private jets to destinations they could easily have driven to. Meanwhile I feel guilty if I use a paper plate. Stop funding the K family people, they are scamming you left and right and care about no one but themselves.
BMW is selling a subscription to enable the heated seats in your car.
You can have a retirement, a house, savings, health or a child - MUST pick one. You have no money for all of those.
That there is still cruelty towards animals.
I work to try and ensure residents can live without choosing between eating food and heating their homes. I live in a rich country.
The fact that many companies have hidden research results about what they do because it may harm business, even though the business is harmful to the planet or an individual’s health.
I make six figures but live paycheck to paycheck, can't afford a decent 3 BR house without being house poor (I need it as I work from home) and have $130k in student debt owed to the federal government that I will never be able to pay off.
Billionaires sending phallic shaped space craft to outer space while some people live in extreme poverty.
If I was pregnant after 5 months in my state, I'd have to give birth. Even if it was dangerous to me. Even though I'm barely a legal adult. I'd still be forced to do it.
Thought crimes and new speak. You have to use the correct euphemistic language and dodge around what you're trying to say or else a hypersensitive social justice warrior will throw a childish tantrum at you. You need to anticipate which euphemisms they prefer, and if you guess right, they will move the goal post and throw a fit at you anyway.
I don’t go to the ER because the last time was 8k. People divorce to receive care facilities since it is 20-40k a month
Jesus Christ.. Medical Debt doesnt exist as a term in my country for example. I can go to the doctor and pay nothing. Even when I am sick, it is not counted as paid leave, it is counted as sick with full pay. Even if I get sick during vacation, I get my vacation days back. I can also be sick for 6 weeks and my employer has to pay me full pay. After 6 weeks I still get 70% of my pay by the health insurance..for months if needed. I get paid for every therapy or operation if it is advised by doctors. So when I get sick I dont have to worry about paying my rent or my other bills. I live in germany. Now that is what I expect of a modern society.
I live in Oklahoma. We have bad mental health treatment. Our jails and prisons are garbage. The governor is constantly fighting with native tribes. No one cares about women's rights. Christians will get in your face and judge you openly. Lot of homophobes, lot of racists. A lot of animal abuse and neglect. But hey, it's really cheap to live here. And our grocery prices are pretty fair.
Thinking "thats wierd" when there hasnt been a mass shooting for a week
That Rotterdam Bridge WAS going to be taken down temporarily so Jeff Bezos’s yacht could go through.
Millions of people may starve because the dictator of one country decided to invade another.
Once upon a time stalin took ALL of the food out of Ukraine and sold it to hitler. The starvation was intentional.
Have a curable but deadly heart condition & can't afford the cure so on meds 4 the rest of life
This society for whatever reason sees nothing wrong with lying while advertising. I think it contributes greatly to the overdeveloped egos that rip everybody off.
I've been disabled my entire life, but apparently not disabled enough to make adult child money so all I get is an extra $500 on Dad's social security to help with taking care of me. So much for taking care of our mentally ill.
The US tends to ignore its mentally ill as much as possible, even worse than it's physically ill.
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Because we are the map for a dystopian society happening in real time
Load More Replies...My dystopia. I’ve had a serious eating disorder since I was 11 years old caused by ongoing trauma. Until 2 year ago, there were no eating disorder recovery clinics near me covered by insurance. Initial cost to even be seen by a therapist once was $800. To recover one single day of inpatient treatment was 1500. Thank god now I’m relieving treatment in the first and only center that recently opened and is covered by insurance otherwise I might not be alive right now and I def would not be alive a few years from now without treatment.
Honestly, taxes are not the problem. What governments do w/them is another story. More & more laws favor only corporations & the very rich. This is not just in the US, but considering how much we toot our own horn, we deserve the finger-pointing. After many years of working, I got a raise this year only because the minimum wage went up in FL. A few more years until retirement, so hopefully I'll be able to support myself w/my tiny pension.
Because they need to reiterate their communist agendas. And too lazy to come up with something new. I don't even have a college degree and I make good money, I work, like physical work, not sitting all day at the front of the computer browsing the social media. I can get the s**t I want and I can support my lifestyle. All they have talent for is to b***h and moan and frankly I'm utterly disgusted and sick of it.
Load More Replies...When you look at 80's or 90's scifi movies and you realise the conditions the poorer are living in are what now most of are living in.
Europe is the only desirable future in the world. Ussr failed. The us is failing right before our eyes. China is gonna fail spectacularly. Japan is slowly dying of old age. Africa seems to be forever stuck. Sad observation.
I live in Japan and returned home to Canada for the first time since 2019. The prices for everything, from homes to meals, were astronomical. Also, the tip minimums have gone up and many establishments who never asked for tips now do. I'm all for tipping, especially where the worker's wage depends on them, but I wish their employers would offer a living wage and not put the onus on the customer, while pocketing more profits. I know COVID hit everyone hard, but it seems like the wages and salaries have not increased at par with the cost of things and here I find myself paying over $100CAD for a simple breakfast for three, once tax and tips are factored in. The employees need those funds but I feel that the owners have placed the responsibility on the customers rather than do their own part to help the people who keep their establishments alive.
Also, you don't tip in Japan. While the wages for service workers leave a lot to be desired, I like a system where customers pay more for the service and goods and forego the tipping, since it's such a weird dynamic that forces workers to do things to hopefully encourage better tips, while some customers just refuse or under tip. That we are leaving their livelihood to the discretion of the customer is such a bizarre thing to me.
Load More Replies...A big issue I am picking up from many of these posts is that urban life is very expensive. I am going to heartily suggest that some people consider relocating away from the city. There are jobs to be had out in small town America. The air is fresh. Crime is low, and so is the cost of living. Your internet and phone will work just fine. And it is so much quieter overall.
The main problem tends to be the lack of jobs in rural areas. I hope that more companies allow remote work. It could solve part of the housing crisis
Load More Replies...3 hours in er no meds delivered. 1,300 to check in. 1,200 per fluid only IV bag 400 per stick. 3k ambulance 3 miles nothing done but bad jokes
Yeah... this is pretty much why America is a rough country to live in.... the problems in my country are a little different (like violence Originated by drug trafficking, for example, the lack of water, gentrification because of -sorry to say this, lol- american people that comes to live here)
I live in a country where half the population calls "caring for other people and letting them be their true selves" "woke" and say it's a bad thing that is to blame for everything they perceive as wrong.
I knew we were in trouble ages ago when people thought professional wrestling was real.
Say you bend over and kiss Republican a*s without saying it. There is only one party pushing regressive, religious reform on the country and, honey, it ain't the left. It's laughable you say that Biden is corrupt, but completely leave out the recently arrested Chump. You're just another unhinged right wing nutjob, regurgitating the s**t you hear on Fox News and from Q anon. Pathetic.
Load More Replies...The horrors and wholeness of wanting a healthy population
Load More Replies...Because we are the map for a dystopian society happening in real time
Load More Replies...My dystopia. I’ve had a serious eating disorder since I was 11 years old caused by ongoing trauma. Until 2 year ago, there were no eating disorder recovery clinics near me covered by insurance. Initial cost to even be seen by a therapist once was $800. To recover one single day of inpatient treatment was 1500. Thank god now I’m relieving treatment in the first and only center that recently opened and is covered by insurance otherwise I might not be alive right now and I def would not be alive a few years from now without treatment.
Honestly, taxes are not the problem. What governments do w/them is another story. More & more laws favor only corporations & the very rich. This is not just in the US, but considering how much we toot our own horn, we deserve the finger-pointing. After many years of working, I got a raise this year only because the minimum wage went up in FL. A few more years until retirement, so hopefully I'll be able to support myself w/my tiny pension.
Because they need to reiterate their communist agendas. And too lazy to come up with something new. I don't even have a college degree and I make good money, I work, like physical work, not sitting all day at the front of the computer browsing the social media. I can get the s**t I want and I can support my lifestyle. All they have talent for is to b***h and moan and frankly I'm utterly disgusted and sick of it.
Load More Replies...When you look at 80's or 90's scifi movies and you realise the conditions the poorer are living in are what now most of are living in.
Europe is the only desirable future in the world. Ussr failed. The us is failing right before our eyes. China is gonna fail spectacularly. Japan is slowly dying of old age. Africa seems to be forever stuck. Sad observation.
I live in Japan and returned home to Canada for the first time since 2019. The prices for everything, from homes to meals, were astronomical. Also, the tip minimums have gone up and many establishments who never asked for tips now do. I'm all for tipping, especially where the worker's wage depends on them, but I wish their employers would offer a living wage and not put the onus on the customer, while pocketing more profits. I know COVID hit everyone hard, but it seems like the wages and salaries have not increased at par with the cost of things and here I find myself paying over $100CAD for a simple breakfast for three, once tax and tips are factored in. The employees need those funds but I feel that the owners have placed the responsibility on the customers rather than do their own part to help the people who keep their establishments alive.
Also, you don't tip in Japan. While the wages for service workers leave a lot to be desired, I like a system where customers pay more for the service and goods and forego the tipping, since it's such a weird dynamic that forces workers to do things to hopefully encourage better tips, while some customers just refuse or under tip. That we are leaving their livelihood to the discretion of the customer is such a bizarre thing to me.
Load More Replies...A big issue I am picking up from many of these posts is that urban life is very expensive. I am going to heartily suggest that some people consider relocating away from the city. There are jobs to be had out in small town America. The air is fresh. Crime is low, and so is the cost of living. Your internet and phone will work just fine. And it is so much quieter overall.
The main problem tends to be the lack of jobs in rural areas. I hope that more companies allow remote work. It could solve part of the housing crisis
Load More Replies...3 hours in er no meds delivered. 1,300 to check in. 1,200 per fluid only IV bag 400 per stick. 3k ambulance 3 miles nothing done but bad jokes
Yeah... this is pretty much why America is a rough country to live in.... the problems in my country are a little different (like violence Originated by drug trafficking, for example, the lack of water, gentrification because of -sorry to say this, lol- american people that comes to live here)
I live in a country where half the population calls "caring for other people and letting them be their true selves" "woke" and say it's a bad thing that is to blame for everything they perceive as wrong.
I knew we were in trouble ages ago when people thought professional wrestling was real.
Say you bend over and kiss Republican a*s without saying it. There is only one party pushing regressive, religious reform on the country and, honey, it ain't the left. It's laughable you say that Biden is corrupt, but completely leave out the recently arrested Chump. You're just another unhinged right wing nutjob, regurgitating the s**t you hear on Fox News and from Q anon. Pathetic.
Load More Replies...The horrors and wholeness of wanting a healthy population
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