Thread by @90percenters

#CorporateFascism a brief tour of the future.
You wake at 6am in one of the dorms for single men in Charter City One (Liverpool). It’s a dorm sponsored by Amazon so the first thing you see is the Founder’s face plastered 5m high on one wall. You open the work app and bid…

…but you lose the contract because 5 people bid to do the work for food bank tokens or ratings stars. You have a 4 star rating out of 5 because you did the same last week. The 20 men in the dorm are starting to stir. Some slept in their overalls. They’re the lucky ones with..

…a secure contract. You’re running low on credits so you take some consumer surveys on the app. You avoid the ones that ask political questions because you’ve heard rumours about people losing their dorm places because they said they weren’t over 70% happy. 10 surveys later..

…and you’ve earned breakfast. You eat your toast in the canteen listening to motivational speakers on the app. You are 80% happy that you’re not homeless you tell the app. It’s low but you figure you can’t put 100% all the time.

While eating, you keep bidding on jobs. You lose until you secure a 3 day contract for warehouse work by bidding 20% below the hourly rate. A good start to the day. The job comes with tokens for food banks too (if you score 95% for efficiency during all three shifts) and that’s..

…as good as it ever gets. With that you should be able to bid for a food only job which might even win you another star. If you keep your 5 star rating for a week, you’ll be eligible for a visit from your girlfriend in the conjugal lounge…

On screen the motivational speaker finishes talking about goals and targets. The leader of #CharterCity One comes on. He says the city is bidding for a contract with Sony but it will require flexibility on hourly rates to beat the bid of Hong Kong.

You catch the Goldman Sachs bus to the job. You have to wear the virtual reality headset to ride but you don’t listen to the attractive woman explaining investment opportunities because someone stole your future and you’re never getting it back.