I'm watching an old Sliders episode where the group are all stranded in a shopping centre. Everyone who is stranded there lives and works in the shopping centre, with no way out. I'm a little bothered by how real it feels.
They earn $200 a day, half is deducted for housing. They're also required to spend at least $80 at the shopping centre a day or they are docked three weeks pay, so they can only save, max, $20 a day. If they try to escape without paying your debts, they have a bracelet that shocks you if you go out of your approved zone.
Their every move is recorded and watched on monitor-- and if you are caught not up-selling, you are penalised. The professor is fired because (dressed as Santa) he tries to teach the children in the queue that money isn't everything.
Television is just adverts. No actual shows. Just adverts. 24/7. And embedded in the adverts are subliminal messages convincing everyone to buy anything and everything. Then they give you credit cards to purchase everything, and you are legally owned by the credit card company if you can't pay on demand.
In the end, they find the villain who is doing all of this illegally. But I feel like if this actually happened in real life, now? The guy would get a payrise and a 500M bonus and a private jet.
The episode also has Chase Masterson (who played Leeta on DS9).
Season 3, episode 12, 'Season's Greedings' original airdate 5 November 1998
Written by Eleah Horwitz
Directed by Richard Compton
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from Taltos, the third and final novel in Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches trilogy
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Trespassing
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