#evil maaan evil evil whiny man

[lumpy-veev]

Look me in the eye and tell me planned obsolescence would not have been Kale’s next brilliant plan. Mayhaps followed up with establishing a monopoly on Vandelay Island, making non-Vandelay parts that might be cheaper or easier to come by incompatible with Vandelay Tech.

Mandatory software updates! Except they cause prosthetics and implants to run in a less energy-efficient way, degrading them and making them things that need to be replaced. Where are you gonna buy replacements? Vandelay! SPECTRA doesn’t even have to do much convincing, if the prosthetic/implant is vital for quality of life. 

If SPECTRA isn’t long range (i.e. only covers Vandelay Island), it’d be awful inconvenient if people left, and then didn’t come back. Maybe Kale would deem it necessary to make Vandelay cybernetics depend on the SPECTRA signal to run properly. Ooh, maybe he’d make it so that people could purchase time away from the island. Make a fun little subscription service out of it. 

I just think a Kale-run Vandelay Island could get real dystopic reaaaaal fast.