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Advantageous
2015 · Film · 92 min
Directed by Jennifer Phang
In a near-future city where soaring opulence overshadows economic hardship, Gwen and her daughter, Jules, do all they can to hold on to their joy, despite the instability surfacing in their world.
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I find it odd that the article manages to completely ignore/miss the effect of welfare and the change in incentives it may result in. Also, it appears that statistically, single mothers are much more likely to vote Left than Right.
In the sci-fi movie Advantageous, a future society with a lot more automation, has high unemployment rates. Recruitment (which in the movie is mostly done by AI) eventually evolves to a consensus whereby most jobs are assigned to men because otherwise society would become a lot more dangerous to everyone.
EDIT: References:
[1] 74% of single mothers voting Democrat
[2] one quarter voting Republican
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/single-mothers-give-presidential-politics-a-new-perspective/2013/06/02/b8f85702-cb90-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html?utm_term=.dd8a17e22032 [2] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/single-mothers-with-family-values.html