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In reality it would've been a BAD ending


The humans had a paradise of peaceful, constant distraction, and robots attended to everything.
Now that the humans went into 'manual' mode they notice each other, which will soon be followed by arguments and sectarian violence. The androids will be seen as outsiders that need to be destroyed due to their subversion of humanity.

It will be wars and the plot of A.I. all over again

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Yes, being a fat blob with no motivation or ambition = paradise.

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Well, if everything is taken care of, let's say there's a perfect world - what do you need ambition or motivation for?

Hellenians (Hell - e? Like Wall - e?) had a 'society', where the slaves did all the hard work and menial tasks, so the non-slave humans had time to cultivate themselves, philosophize, and work on their mind and bodies freely, with plenty of leisure and creativity all abound.

Granted, it's morally wrong to have slaves, but if you take the moral aspect aside for a moment, just to see the basic structure of the system, it would be a blessing to any and all human beings not to HAVE TO WORK, but to be able to actually LIVE, CREATE, EXPRESS and EXPLORE freely and fully, and to have plenty of LEISURE (which is a necessary component of a healthy human life - which is probably why there's so much madness now - and even the things widely considered 'normal' are just madness in disguise or without a disguise).

Human beings are not meant to just WORK. Sure, it can be a passing phase in a civilization's development into full humanity, where they have to work hard at one point to cultivate their spirit and build the infrastructures and everything they need.

But after everything is in place, things should be (and right now, technology-wise, they also COULD be) automated as far as possible, so HUMAN BEINGS can live lives worthy of human beings - do what they want (without harming others or breaking the law, which means, breaking other humans' rights - acts and statutes are not law (common law), or they can be called 'maritime law' or 'statutory law' or 'law of the high seas'), walk leisurely in the woods whenever they feel like it, admire the nature's beauty, meditate, socialize, think, philosophize, create and express.. and cultivate their spirits and minds.

This planet, as it is now, is like a WORK-CAMP. It's not fit for human beings. It's called a prison planet for many good reasons. There are oligarchs trying to keep people in perpetual slavery (sometimes called 'wage-slavery'), and stupidify them in the process, so they wouldn't resist their shackles, even when they become painfully tight (many are starting to feel the pressure already).

Instead, people praise their shackles, lust for them and talk about how nice and shiny they are, and are puzzled and shocked, when they meet a free man, and ask them: "But .. then you won't have these shiny chains that go with the shackles!", without understanding how much lighter walking is without them.

I think this planet is beyond hope, beyond repair, beyond fixing .. and these odd, wretched beings that some call 'humans' (I try to avoid that mistake) that this planet is currently populated with, can't be reasoned with. They don't have empathy, compassion or real human qualities. They are extremely selfish, hostile and destructive - at best, they are ignorant of other people's wellbeing in their daily habits (and thus cause unnecessary health risks to others, not to mention aesthetic and aural (noise) problems), at worst, they are ready to murder their brothers and sisters and innocent animals without remorse, without a second thought, without realizing that it is wrong.

Goodness and real humanity .. where are those things on Terra? Terra is the right name for this planet, for it's full of terrarists..to live in 'Terra' is to live in 'Terror'. The same thing. Easy to figure out how this planet got its real name.

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" so the non-slave humans had time to cultivate themselves, philosophize, and work on their mind and bodies freely, with plenty of leisure and creativity all abound."

That doesn't relate to the future vision of humanity in this movie.

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