This shows our near future . . .

Rating: 8/10 (16 November 2013)

. . . when the top 1% of "job creators" (propaganda speak for "slave masters") achieve their goal of stealing 99% of the world's wealth from the rest of us. (No, Virginia, there is NOT a Santa Claus who magically pulls another million dollars out of thin air each time a baby is born: Life is a zero sum game, in which riches are finite; if riches were infinite, stealing them would bring absolutely no joy to rich people!) The world of ELYSIUM may seem decades off to Fox News ditto-heads, but to anyone not drunk on the suicide Kool-Aid, ELYSIUM could come as soon as 2017. As documented here, our future world will increase the boundaries between the 1% and everyone else, with the amoral elite perhaps moving off-planet. Most everyone else will be condemned to third world squalor, unless they are "fortunate" enough to be hired as short-lived slaves, like Max (Matt Damon), the main character of ELYSIUM. Without union protection, when Max gets caught in a machine, the Rich Man's robot factory foreman (akin to the Overseer in 12 YEARS A SLAVE, except he lacks a whip) couldn't care less--there are plenty more expendable bodies where Max came from. Since there's a 99% chance that this is YOUR near future, PLEASE watch ELYSIUM--before it's too late for nearly ALL of us!!