I don't have anything left to throw up.

Amazing detail.

I assumed they got there the same way our society did: corrupt rulers manipulating every facet of life to control the masses and bleed them dry, into perpetual debt/slavery.

It's sad that this is very true.

I absolutely agree. Though I always imagined that the blame was on capitalist-fascists rulers who molded society and economic conditions that way, and that future is the result of their extreme greed and hubris. I honestly never thought the blame was on the people.

Idiocracy was a prophecy.