{"id":100534,"date":"2026-06-15T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=100534"},"modified":"2026-01-24T21:28:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T02:28:52","slug":"elysium-greed-and-the-crab-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/15\/elysium-greed-and-the-crab-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Elysium<\/em>: Greed and the Crab Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zAxBoEkY4d0?si=Zwa1Qgrqo3qKct6L\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 23 Jan 2026<\/p>\n<p><em>Elysium<\/em> is one of those films I like more for the world it presents than the story it tells. It&#8217;s a tale of two worlds, a wealthy break-away civilization in orbit and a slowly dying civilization on Earth. On the surface it&#8217;s simplistic, preachy even, but underneath it posits some important questions both by what it tries to do and what it doesn&#8217;t even attempt to address. <\/p>\n<p>00:00 Intro<br \/>\n01:18 Healing Magic and Healthcare Access<br \/>\n03:22 Overpopulation and Automation<br \/>\n04:18 Technology in Layers<br \/>\n07:50 Easy Answers to Hard Problems<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and Merch! | feral-shop.fourthwall.com<br \/>\n<em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em> &#8211; the prologue to <em>Stellar Drift<\/em>, coming later this year.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 23 Jan 2026 Elysium is one of those films I like more for the world it presents than the story it tells. It&#8217;s a tale of two worlds, a wealthy break-away civilization in orbit and a slowly dying civilization on Earth. On the surface it&#8217;s simplistic, preachy even, but underneath it posits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,28],"tags":[1593,122,85],"class_list":["post-100534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-media","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-q9w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100535,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534\/revisions\/100535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}