Not to mention it was a smart home with all kinds of AI minus the “artificial” part of AI.
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NoneYa@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Even more accurate is to say that he paid the salaries of a large number of animal “house workers” hence their catchphrase “It’s a living!” They all earned their living off of that one guy’s income
ceenote@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.
Battle_Masker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
do remember that Reaganomics hadn’t been invented yet, so wages, income, and all that were MUCH better
ceenote@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.
RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I remember seeing Fred read the news on his stone tablet.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Plus being able to drive implies at least some degree of literacy
Unless Fred was raised by some of those middle of the woods car wizard redneck types that are dangerously close to keeping their vehicles together and running through Waagh energy
cumskin_genocide@lemm.ee 11 months ago
He was just looking at the hieroglyphs
RandomStickman@kbin.run 11 months ago
I'm pretty sure he's read and chiselled stone tablets before
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No, he read stuff all the time.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Flintstones was based upon 1950 suburban US culture
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work
but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human ‘default’. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.
thirteene@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I tried watching the Jetsons last year and it was pretty painful. The story moved really slow, the mother was claiming to be overworked pressing a button. Everything was a mildly linear improvement from the 1950s and it had very old ideas. It did not age well
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And they had a large pet that ate just as much as the people
ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Shout out to the comic where Fred introduces some hunter-gatherers to Bedrock and after one day they decide to leave because it sucks.
NutWrench@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And you could afford a rack of ribs big enough to tip over your car.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a conspiracy they he had help making ends meet, in the form of a little green alien friend/slave.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Heavy equipment operators are actually paid pretty well
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And yet he couldn’t afford shoes
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Not to mention all the fancy modern appliances he’s got
mPony@lemmy.world 11 months ago
like some kind of stone-aged George Jetson?!?
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Actually after Pebbles is born Wilma becomes a journalist for the Daily Granite. Get your Flintstones lore right
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Womenfolk in the workforce? These are strange times, my fellow Water Buffalo!”
mPony@lemmy.world 11 months ago
she also occasionally worked as a Cigarette Girl. “Cigars! Cigarettes! … Cigars! Cigarettes! …”
Zehzin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That was before she married Fred. In fact, that’s how they meet, he was a bellhop in the same resort.