Where:
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meat is a rare gem for the ultra wealthy
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greenhouse gasses have resulted in a permanent heatwave where nothing can grow
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there is a profession that is basically 'manual googler through books'
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tiny CRT tvs are new
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asteroids is the peak of video gaming
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running water and soap is an luxory.
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literacy is uncommon
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women describe being a wife as a "job" similar to furniture in an apartment.
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you literally need to step over dozens of homeless people outside your door coming and going.
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the only decent jobs are Bureaucratic jobs where you can steal what you can lay your hands on.
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It's a product of a unique moment in history. There was a huge explosion of population growth going on in the third world. It had actually already started slowing down already in the 1960s and food production was growing much faster than population, but by 1973 when the movie was made, half-educated midwits were still easily convinced that civilization was about to collapse. Fearmongers like Paul Ehrlich made wild claims about how hundreds of millions of people in India were absolutely definitely going to starve to death during the 1970s.
I always enjoy pointing out to boomers that they actually believed this stuff was going to happen and it 100% didn't. And instead of ever admitting they'd been wrong and needed to rethink their understanding of how the world works, they just stopped talking about it. Kind of like when most people believed Japan was going to take over the world in the 1980s.
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