Is episode "Past Tense" an omen of a Donald Trump presidency?

Funny that. Seems like over here.. If China can stop foreign ownership why is that a bad thing in the West? Why do Western nations whore themselves out like that?

 

Profit at all cost.

The Ferengi would love it down here.

 

Oh, yeah:

It will be worse than the episode predicts.

 

That's the same shit happening here in Toronto, with a shitload of condos being built that are only affordable by quite well-to-do people (or people that have a good high-paying 'middle-class' white collar job.) There's now a proposal in Toronto to tax foreign home buyers/owners because housing prices are so high-I hope that it will become law.

 

No I haven't why?

 

Ah....... I'll go look it up

 

Not to nitpick but it was the 1940's.

 

The episode already seems pretty wrong/likely to be wrong as it predicted that the non-poor would be, in a pretty widespread and nonpartisan manner, very uninformed and indifferent about the problems of the poor, rather than the polarization we see today (Sanders doing great in and nearly winning the Democratic presidential nomination and now seeming to have a big influence in the Democratic side of Congress).

It's considered more of a bad thing in the West than in China because Western countries allow opposition parties and freer speech.

Being reluctant to intervene at the level of emulating a Communist dictatorship country isn't exactly worship of unchecked Capitalism.

 

Are you sure about that? The primary depiction of the wealthy was the business-owner Dax runs into (character's name was Chris?), who, despite being the explicit embodiment of the super-wealthy corporate bougeoisie, is made out to be a totally sympathetic character. His character is the personification of Sisko's statement at the beginning of the episode about the problem not being that people didn't care, but that they didn't know what to do when faced with seemingly impossible social issues. This is even more apparent in that, when given a course of action, he sticks his neck out to do the right thing (he gets the Sanctuary residents online, risking his business, wealth, and reputation). The only other wealthy people depicted in the episode are the bougies at the party, who, despite being, well, bougie douches, are clearly not unaware of what's going on, as they discuss civil unrest in other countries. Of course, they couldn't delve into the complexities of every aspect of the universe they created, but it seems like they put effort into depicting a realistically diverse upper-class.

 

But if the housing bubble pops and crashes your economy you'd be wondering why you didn't do something before now wouldn't you?

Foreign ownership should be controlled in the West. If China can do it so can we.

 

In America, you can take out a loan, buy land, hire a contractor, and have a house built. Not in Britain?

 

You can, but it's harder (and more expensive) to get permission to do so, so a lot fewer people do it.

 

Why is it harder in Britain?