Neoliberalism is when you are an atomized, entrepreneurial subject, but you’re still living in a mostly traditional liberal society despite having a LinkedIn page and a side hustle in the gig economy.

Neofeudalism is when you are fully transformed into smartphone app platform serf who takes initiative on a daily basis with no boss telling you what to do. But ultimately you must earn enough wealth to pay your feudal lords the yearly tax of grain harvested trash you found in an abandoned post industrial hellzone.

“retrofuturist aesthetic is so cool! Such an epic aesthetic choice, wow this game is awesome!” matt

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    1 year ago

    So techno-fascism?

    To be fair, there usually isn’t much scrap on a failed run because you were just selling as much as you could minutes before, plus they can probably retrieve it (along with your corpse) after you die.