• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    What was the story behind that? It’s a good satirical criticism of health care but it doesn’t align with this utopian future where poverty inexplicably no longer exists.

    Edit: jeez guys, I was just asking how that made it into the story. You don’t have to get all political.

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      21 hours ago

      I think they just had to put something there, so they threw in a joke. They probably never expected it to be visible or readable.

      It’s similar in nature to how the DS9 promenade directory has “Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems” from Buckaroo Bonzai, albeit a more dark-humored example.

      In universe, it doesn’t exist, I’d say. It’s just a part of the aesthetic, similar to how some things on TOS would look less hokey in real life.