Would YOU live in Rapture?

[tthor]

Andrew Ryan believes that capitalism in its purest form will always prevail, but what he fails to see is that there are many people who are absolute manipulative pricks who will do anything to get what they want, and screw over everybody else in the process. in the end, pure unregulated capitalism will almost always turn into a kleptocracy at some point

 

[minimacker]

Oh, yeah. Free of all restraint, I'd totally live there. It's a synergy of Communism and Capitalism, a self-sustaining city of complete science and imagination.

You know, except for the whole catastrophe.

 

[Nouw]

No. I'd rather live in my comfortable world.

 

[6_Qubed]

You know, even before the whole place went to shit, it was still pretty bad. Oh sure, if you had scads of money everything was just peachy keen... until you spent up all your money at the hospital because fuck health care, that stuff's for hippies and parasites! Or instead, you threw your inheritance into seed money to start up a new business... that tanks after about five other companies are created that do the exact same thing as you but do it a few degrees better. So now that you're broke and can't turn to family for support because you moved to the bottom of the fucking ocean without telling them, (REAL SMART THERE BY THE WAY) you're going to be left with no choice but to be a toilet scrubber, treated like crap by all those other guys who still have their money, because Ryan actually encourages that way of thinking. You might as well be in Double America at that point, so to bring this whole answer laboriously back on topic, no. No, I do not want to live in Double America. Regular-strength America is screwing me over just fine, thanks.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

What if a whale hits Rapture? Then what do we do???? SO not the city for me

 

[Cheesus333]

To be completely honest, it didn't even seem like a very nice place before everyone went kill-crazy. Before it was anarchic it was totalitarian. You just kept quiet for fear of Ryan's thought police crashing down on you as a Bible smuggler, or a Fontaine supporter, etc. And Heaven help you if you dared to speak out, or try to leave.

No, I wouldn't live in Rapture. But I think it'd be a mutual feeling cause I'm not one of the cultural or intellectual elite anyway

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, if we're playing with such total fiction, then I declare myself god and be done with it.

 

[Adremmalech]

Hell no. The whole place probably smells like barnacles.

 

[robot slipper]

Probably not, I'm not a big fan of being hit in the head with a wrench while I try to nick potato chips from a corpse.

Also I think there would be all sorts of problems with rising damp.

 

[Ambi]

Chips make you GAIN health. Hell yes.

/bad joke

Okay seriously, no. I don't even really like potato chips and that place is evil, but I'd still visit it because it's beautiful.

 

[Togs]

God no, Im heavily opposed to objectivism. Plus Rapture quickly descended into hell on Earth.

 

[Particulate]

Not particularly. Ignoring the claustrophobic and easily-breached natural defenses of the city, being with such a small group of people in a self-contained, unreachable city would make me feel constantly unsafe.

Although I'd be flattered if they asked.

same here. Rapture had problems BEFORE everyone went nuts and they stemmed from the location and isolation.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

No, I'm not a conservative libertarian.

 

[funguy2121]

No, I would not live in rapture. I would ascend to the Heaven to be with my Jesus after the dead in Christ have risen first, while all the sinners await their punish-

Sorry, I couldn't keep that up.

How many people on here have no idea who Ayn Rand is?

 

[veloper]

We'll there's the asthetics of the place to consider first. Everything looks either like a rusty factory or a Vegas casino.
It would be a permanent headache to live there. It'll prolly smell too.

Social-economically almost everyone was a wage slave. Ryan and his close friends sucked everyone else dry.
Also if I remember the in game lore correctly, there was a constant unfulfilled demand for luxury goods from the surface. Even if you started out rich, it still sucks there.

It's a neon lit hell hole, so no.

 

[Kiefer13]

Fuck no. Even pre-civil war, it's still far too full of crazy for me. Objectivism and/or laissez-faire capitalism in general is a horrible idea.

 

[Slash Dementia]

I'd probably get paranoid living underwater with only glass between it and Rapture. The crazy, drugged up people don't help at all either.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Given that I know how that particular ride ends, I don't think I would like to get on.

 

[Mr.Mattress]

If I didn't know how Rapture would end up, then heck yes, I definitely would. I'd go there to be one of the greatest cartoonists of all time, and I'd probably end up doing cartoons for ADAM and what not before I get mugged and killed.

However, knowing how bad Rapture gets, I would definitely say no.