Perhaps I have always known that. Perhaps it helped me to survive.
I realise I have not fully explained how our way of life came to be. I will attempt to do this now.
After President Nyakio's term ended around 90% of the population was moderately wealthy.
This was due to the stocks in Robotics soaring faster than previously ever heard of. Everyone jumped on the market and somehow it never crashed until 2126 when President Nuro took office. Whether luck, intuition or just hatred for the new President, stockholders bailed. The few that remained were either not fast enough to sell or too blinded by money to care and bought all they could. That was a mistake. His announcement to privately own the HAB robot company and to replace all current robots with HAB bots single handily destroyed the robotics market.
The President's next move against the population would to make them volunteer to stop working.
The 10% who were left with nothing were given the most minimal government help at getting back on their feet. However anyone that had a job was heavily taxed and any company that employed people were similarly taxed. This tactic gave companies the motivation to replace human workers while the people felt they had enough money to not bother working anyway.
10 years after the HAB bots had been perfected and with 50% of the population unemployed, Nuro's policy changed again. Now the companies would be taxed no matter what was working there, although the tax for human workers was still more than the rate for bots.
With more and more people being laid off because of the tax hikes and the once rich population now poor from overspending with almost no sustainable income for 10 years, the template was complete.
Laziness gripped the globe. Recreation was the goal. What we call HomeWeb is the evolution of what Alison called The Internet.
The Internet was a means of communicating, nothing more. From what little information I can gather about its creation, it was decades before computer networking was available globally. Businesses tried and failed to create stable network markets but through perseverance and learning from mistakes eventually they succeeded.
The success of established brand sites gave aspiring entrepreneurs hope. Unfortunately with all the conventional markets already taken by the experts, new ideas had to be formed.
Social Networking is born.
The world is doomed.
With shopping from home popular, the concept of spending time with friends without having to actually go anywhere seemed the next logical step. Luckily the realisation that people can get almost the same experiences without having to go anywhere took generations to set in although some came to it faster than others.
With this budding mind set beginning to grow, and the social networks doing everything to keep as many people using them as much as possible, I must ask, was there ever any alternative?
Every day more and more information was added to the Internet. With better technology came more and more options. Almost immediately worldwide fame was within grasp as anyone could now show off any skill they did or did not have. Stardom, once the reward of the determined became Internet Stardom. Less polished but more sought.
This "Me me me" culture was eventually the catalyst for the Unification of Earth.
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