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goatsandgangsters · 3 months ago

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me, age 12, listening to urinetown: haha weird funny musical with ridiculous premise me, age 30, re-listening to urinetown for the first time in a while after witnessing the effects of late-stage capitalism and climate change and everything that Amazon has become in the interim: hm. yeah. this could happen actually.

#'gee daddy. I never realized large monopolizing incorporations could be such a force for GOOD in the world'#this musical was so ahead of its time*#(*by which I mean I did not fully grasp how Accurate it is as satire back in the early 2000s because I was 12)#urinetown #except I think our real-life version is not gonna be throwing people off buildings #but SmartToilets(tm) with paid subscription models that give you certain number of flushes per month depending on your tier #if you upgrade to the HIGHEST price tier you can flush the toilet without having to watch an ad first

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