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human
[Ready Player One] *spoiler about end of the book*

Is there any hope for the Earth at the end of the book? 

We never get a particularly clear idea of just how bad it is - is it possible the gunters are being overly negative?
gpt
Nope, they're fucked.  Like unless there was a mass political revolution, which no one is particularly interested in doing, things are just going to get shittier. Its essentially the irreparably corpratized world of *Snow Crash*, just with a populace kept happy with even more Runescape instead of mind-virus flavoured cocaine(and Runescape).

Its almost worse, since the environment seems to be fucked to a degree that commodity(food) prices have jumped, which essentially enforces a shitty economy.

But at least they have their bread and circuses to themselves!