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> Yet, it is fake, as I am sitting on our top floor, a barely furnished room full of items belonging to a family house with two young kids

Define dystopia.

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I can't think of any version of dystopia that would be defined by "working your comfortable office job from your multi-story family home while experimenting with a multi thousand dollar piece of high tech equipment which can provide virtual experiences the likes of which was mere science fiction just two decades earlier purchased with your own money the month it was released to the public" Certainly no more dystopic than the very idea of remote work in general.

think we're probably each focusing on different tropes of the genre here

Still less dystopian than forcing people to commute for an hour to sit in noisy open offices to teleconference with other people not at the office. Dystopian status quos breed dystopian solutions, sadly.

noun An imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad, as from deprivation, oppression, or terror

Sure! Thank you. There's a few good definitions out there, some more absolute than others, but none of which quite capture the generally subjective nature of it. Personally tend to align more towards the "corrupted utopia", esp. where acceptance is controversial or blurred ... think the matrix or fahrenheit 451.

But the scene I pictured when I read that line, rightly or wrongly, was straight out of pearl jam's do the evolution. It's evolution baby.

Meh, it's not like everyone has been working from the beach or lakeside up until now. I'd wager it's less dystopian than your current setup staring at the wall of your home or office, maybe with a window to a view of nothing in an office you're forced to drive to.

"I guess that depends on what your definition of the word is is" ;)

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