Dublin's dystopia: The age of man is over, the age of hotels is now | JOE.ie

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“The year is 2029. The city is Dublin. Hotel rooms outnumber families by two to one.” TVsCarlKinsella explores Dublin's dystopian future... and present.

Hotel rooms outnumber families by two to one. We fought them off for as long as we could, but once they knocked Liberty Hall to build a hotel which offered discounted rooms to Amazon employees, we were done for.

The Irish public never saw a penny of Apple's tax debt and similar deals were struck with the other tech giants like Facebook and Google. Public transport has been replaced by shuttle buses operated by those companies. If 1984 or Brave New World taught us anything, it's that even the best works of dystopian fiction are never spot on, but some of them don't miss the mark by all that much. I'll be damned if you can read the above, look me in the eye and rule it out. After all, it's not a million miles away from what's already happening.

 

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