Sexbots / Robotic Prostitution.
Might not be as advanced as in scifi, but…
Its more or less a perfect loophole for strip clubs.
Its not a person servicing you, you’re simply paying for temporary use of mechanical equipment, like a gym.
This is illegal now?
Maybe not strictly illegal, but … as best I can tell, not really currently totally, explicitly legal.
Kind of a gray area, I guess I mean that I think it will become more normalized and ‘more’ legal.
In the USA, it’ll become legal for corporations to fully own politicians and be treated as de facto nation states
Read Snow Crash
Why stop at owning politicians? Corporations already have a sort of Personhood. Just run the company itself for office.
Hunting the poor for sport.
Alternatively, hunting the rich for sport.
With the way things are going - birth control.
Brutal execution of people committing “crimes”.
Considering I’ll be an old fecker in 50 years, I sure hope euthanasia is legal by then.
SAME
It is in some countries already.
Some US states as well, at least it was a couple years ago. Oregon IIRC
Look at Cyberpunk 2077… Take your pick
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Modifying a 4d hypercube to embed it with perpetual catharsis and spiking someone’s drink with it
Probably literal slavery instead of the Quasi slavery we have now. They’re just going to cut out the middle man I think.
Bodily autonomy
In the US? Child labor.
Depending on the state it’s legal now. Arkansas…
Many places are legalizing psychedelic mushrooms. MDMA is being used for veteran PTSD, and ibogane is gaining respect for severe addiction
I went to a weed store and they were selling shrooms and I was seriously caught off guard.
drug laws are going to be drastically different 50 years from now. EITHER people at power are going to be sensible (LOL yeah right) and make the beneficial ones less illegal OR everything will be illegal and testing positive for anything will get you the death penalty or sent to a torture camp.
We might see alcohol banned again, this time with the might of enshitification and modern technology to back it up. It’s going to be a lot more ruthless and cutthroat next time around. Boy oh boy I can’t wait for the absolute chaos that will unfold when companies start firing people left and right for testing positive for alcohol metabolites after they spend zillions of dollars figuring out how to make unbeatable alcohol drug tests with stupidly long detection windows instead of actually using the technology of modern medicine to do anything useful like cure cancer or help people.
Slavery.
While I get what you’re saying, it is technically legal in the United States under an exception in the 13th amendment as punishment for a crime.
See more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_States
Pedantry is the stinkiest of colognes, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist
Wow, very irrational and egotistical, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist, son.
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That’s not pedantry, it’s being correct. Slavery isn’t illegal in the United States. It’s used as a punishment for crimes.
And yet that little factlet has zero bearing on anything in this discussion, you just saw an opportunity to be snarky and jumped
that’s very needy behavior son
The discussion is about things that are illegal today that could be legal in 50 years. Slavery itself falls outside that topic because it is already legal. That isn’t trivial or splitting hairs, nor is anyone being snarky by pointing that out. It’s just a fact.
Boy, if you’re going to act like a know-it-all you should at least know a bit more.
The main thrust of my argument, that you seem so determined to ignore for imaginary internet points, is there isn’t press gangs roaming around and kidnapping people into slavery, and there will be within 50 years.
This does not currently happen legally in the United States
BUT
You adjusted your cokebottle glasses and 'UM ACKKTCHUUUALLY’d the prison exemption
Not because you had anything useful or interesting to say, but rather to see your own writing and get a reaction. I don’t think you really understand how irritating that is as a personality trait, and is likely the reason you are so lonely
The main thrust of my argument, that you seem so determined to ignore for imaginary internet points, is there isn’t press gangs roaming around and kidnapping people into slavery, and there will be within 50 years.
A. You didn’t articulate that until just now so how could anyone know what you meant unless you actually said it?
B. Are you aware of what ICE has been doing, because that sounds a lot like what ICE has been doing. More prisoners = more “prison labor” (to be clear, that means slaves). Although, to be fair we don’t actually know where most of their victims have gone.
I don’t think you really understand how irritating that is as a personality trait, and is likely the reason you are so lonely
Says the guy making personal attacks on an Internet forum over being corrected…
So when slavery for non-criminals ended, they just started making more black criminals (and criminals in general).
I don’t think it’s pedantic to say that slavery is still legal when there is an entire industry built around that currently legal slave labor.
You don’t think at all and people like you are a big part why the internet has gotten so shitty
No, the reason the internet is shitty is because of consistently, factually wrong, and overly aggressive assholes such as your self.
I don’t know, slavery is pretty legal in a lot of places, including the USA.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Sounds pretty legal to me. Just gotta drum up charges against whoever you want to enslave in the USA.
Cannabis. Possibly psilocybin.
Not with the way the US is headed.
There’s money to be made. Profit trumps “morals” in the US.
Does it though? We are literally watching payment processors change this in the gaming world right now.
Banning porn is literally a major part of Project 2025, as are draconian drug laws.
Yeah, but it’s highly regulated where it is legal, which is what they’re trying to do with gaming and porn right now. Thing is, weed has got a lot better and cheaper once we started regulating it. So we like that.
They can’t use the whole “threat to children” to get their way with their agenda. The big deal now is for it to be legalized federally, so the payment processor can get on that bandwagon.
I used to pay $10 a gram for high quality wax buying black market. The cheapest I can find it in my state after legalization is $45 for .8 g mid/low grade wax.
Legalization has only enshitified Weed. Lower quality, less variety, just as illegal if your traveling or don’t have the proper bag with the official sticker yada yada…
I hear where you’re coming from, but, as I mentioned, a lot of it currently depends on how things are run locally. If there was a nationalized market after federal legalization, it would be a hell of a lot better. For everyone.
For example, your prices, wherever you are, or not the same price as I pay here in Florida. Which is only a medical state, not a recreationally legal state. But I pay a fraction of those prices. Or I would, if I was into wax. I prefer flour, but that’s the point. That’s also cheaper here.
And with a national market, prices everywhere would stabilize. You’d probably pay a lot less, while I might end up paying a tiny bit more. Hyperlocalized economies fluctuate wildly.
Yeah legalizing it is totally on Republican’s agendas, and not… *checks notes… Instituting a Christian Theocracy with Trump as king.
They’re literally busy trying to rig the 2026 midterms with gerrymandering. Get real.
Pretty sure arresting minorities trumps “morals”.
There’s more money to be made keeping it illegal. More risk, more reward.
Most of the UK illegal weed is produced by a monopoly producer. There’s the odd hippy growing their own, but the stuff the most prolific dealers sell all comes from the same source, up and down the country.
But not by the white people.
It’s never been about morals. Drug prohibition has always been about legal justification to harass and arrest minorities.
In my state, it is already legal to buy supplies for growing mushrooms, possess an amount for personal use, and give and recieve them without payment. You just can’t sell them for profit.
For how long? You live in a fucked up country. How long before feds start arresting people in legal states.
Growing mushrooms is soooooo fun!
