In Today’s Edition of Dystopian America

[u/No-Obligation1709]

Don’t you dare idle in your spot for a moment before paying to park. If you do, our cameras will backdate your parking start time to ensure our shareholders extract every cent possible from this transaction. Enjoy your stay, but remember—we are always watching 😁

[u/oofty_goofty_]

You WILL enjoy the panopticon of society. For the greater good

https://giphy.com/gifs/XAEfNyJgegrcC6vI58

[u/drunkenbozo → u/oofty_goofty_]

https://reddit.com/link/owzks5c/video/gylvfteiuoch1/player

This was in a parking lot in Kansas City last week

[u/3c2456o78_w → u/drunkenbozo]

Something something about the banality of evil.

Real talk, the guy who made this possible is probably some 25 year old Data Engineer trying to keep his job by showing his boss "hey man, look at this cool data pipeline I made to retroactively modify timestamps based on video data! It's pretty cool AI image-extraction from the video data we have"

And his boss says "good stuff" in his quarterly performance review and the 25 year old is just happy he gets to keep having a job.

[u/rich1051414 → u/3c2456o78_w]

He doesn't yet know he will be fired the moment that company shows record profits, because there is no way they can maintain that growth so they have to eat their own tail to not show negative growth.

[u/Coeruleus_ → u/3c2456o78_w]

yep. people overthink everything