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.
Cannabis. Possibly psilocybin.
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
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.
Wow, very irrational and egotistical, enjoy a space on my permanent blocklist, son.
I guarantee I am older than you
I could see several forms of human genetic engineering becoming legal. For instance, three-parent children, also known as mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) is illegal in most western countries, though it was legalized in the UK, Spain, and Italy. The FDA banned in it in the US in 2015 because it involves human subjects research without prior approval from an institutional review board.
Probably literal slavery instead of the Quasi slavery we have now. They’re just going to cut out the middle man I think.
Considering I’ll be an old fecker in 50 years, I sure hope euthanasia is legal by then.
It is in some countries already.
Some US states as well, at least it was a couple years ago. Oregon IIRC
SAME
I will bet that a lot of genetic engineering restrictions in Europe will be more relaxed in 50 years than they are today.
The introduction of the car had people who were worried about it passing a lot of restrictions too; these went away over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_traffic_laws
Red flag laws were laws in the United Kingdom and the United States enacted in the late 19th century, requiring drivers of early automobiles to take certain safety precautions, including waving a red flag in front of the vehicle as a warning.
In the United Kingdom, the law required self-propelled vehicles to be led by a pedestrian waving a red flag or carrying a lantern to warn bystanders of the vehicle’s approach.
In particular the Locomotives Act 1865, also known as Red Flag Act, stated:
- Firstly, at least three persons shall be employed to drive or conduct such locomotive, and if more than two waggons or carriages he attached thereto, an additional person shall be employed, who shall take charge of such waggons or carriages;
- Secondly, one of such persons, while any locomotive is in motion, shall precede such locomotive on foot by not less than sixty yards, and shall carry a red flag constantly displayed, and shall warn the riders and drivers of horses of the approach of such locomotives, and shall signal the driver thereof when it shall be necessary to stop, and shall assist horses, and carriages drawn by horses, passing the same.
The Red Flag Act was repealed in 1896, by which time the internal combustion engine was well into its infancy.[1]
I was very confused at first. Here in Washington State “red flag” laws take people’s guns away, which is very different than a person waving a literal red flag. xD
We like to outsource beta testing. /s
In 50 years we’re basically gonna be living in madmax. So everything is legal. Wild west baby
Legal for who?
feel free to specify if you have something in mind
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.
Punching Nazis
While I understand the sentiment, I hope you’re wrong. Once you make it possible to legally punch people for any reason, it’s really easy to just include more groups into the punchable ones.
Haha you think we’re actually going to be able to get rid of them?
I wish I had your optimism.
No, in 50 years time America will still be a fascist power, but militarily entrenched and with colonized land
We’re already past the time to stop them and unlike shitler, there’s no other world power that can even come close to matching us militarily.
So with no coallition allies strong to save the world from the latest eruption of fascism, where the fuck exactly do you think this is going long-term?
Bodily autonomy
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.
Brutal execution of people committing “crimes”.
