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I'm reading a book by Philip K. Dick ("Ubik"), where everything in the fictional future is coin operated: doors, toasters, showers, everything.
Feels like he either predicted this world we live in, or caused it.
If you think that's amazing there was this guy in the mid 1800s that was a penpal of president Lincoln that predicted the hell we currently live in.
Who was that? Or any more details? I'm intrigued!
Edit: do you just mean marx? That's less intriguing, not wrong, but less intriguing.
as with any source of insight from the 1800s,
It was MarxAmazing book, btw. Like one long fever dream.
I'm like 3/4 of the way through it and yes. I'm surprised at all the turns it's taken already and just how floaty the characters are. Probably a lot of parallels with how I understand the author's life got in the 60s. ☮