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Mark Manson, an American bestselling author and famous YouTuber, has made headlines by posting a video that he "traveled to the world's most depressing country" after visiting Korea. Manson, a best-selling author who has written famous self-development books such as "The Art of Turning Off Nervousness," is a YouTube creator with 1.44 million subscribers.

Manson recently released a 24-minute video on his YouTube channel under the theme of "Traveling to the World's Depressing Country." During his visit to Korea, Manson met with Americans, psychologists, and psychiatrists living in Korea to look into depression in Korean society.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Korea is surprisingly dystopian and no other country is exactly like that tbh.

The internet (and many other areas) are completely captured by monopolies that control everything. There are so many inhumane, draconian laws too. This all contrasts with advance tech and pop production so starkly it kinda breaks people's brains.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Behold the corporate state.

[–] QuantumSparkles 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

So the world of Cyberpunk 2077 basically

[–] darth_helmet 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the genre of cyberpunk in general can be loosely summarized as “it’s the libertarian wet dream future and it sucks”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

"...but the aesthetic is dope"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Cyberpunk libertarian dystopia aesthetic: dope.

Actual libertarian dystopia aesthetic: same as now but more annoying. And more bears.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Actual libertarian dystopia aesthetic: Everything is an ad.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well the country is pretty much run by Samsung to the point their entire economy and education system revolve around it. And the family that runs the company openly gets away with doing whatever the fuck they want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Aw. Name more of the chaebols.

Samsung

KIA

Daewoo

Hyundai

SK

LG

Lotte

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

At least they didn't have 500 million cameras deployed, The real Cyberpunk 2077 is China.