One small dissent in that one aspect of idea is not all that new, but the fact only Soret's game has gotten these idiots chimping instead all that used the same theme before it just heightens the hypocrisy.
Soret may be using UBI and deconstructing it, but media taking the idea of a lazy society encouraged to be indolent because they are provided all they want instead of working for it has been covered before.
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World covered this theme that removing all reason to strive for something leads to a craptastic world, but he just replaced income with a society specifically tailored to be the wet dream of modern day IDPOL types.
His world was one where everything was highly automated, society was designed to slot everyone into a niche, and people were allowed to fuck who they wanted and indulge in drugs that kept them docile and happy, but in exchange creativity came to an end.
The protagonists are those who realize this kind of world, while nice on the surface, it's really a joyless world of hedonism and pointlessness. People have no reason to have ambition and are discouraged from showing any, so the world has no high culture, no ideals, and no progress towards anything better, and most have their urge to care drowned in sex and drugs, while those that do care realize they live a world where any creative urge they feel is not only ignored, it's regarded with contempt.
As for vidya games, Chrono Trigger had a major subplot where a magical kingdom thrived in a society of laziness and complacency because they had all their needs fueled by magic, most too happy with their cushy lives to dwell on the fact their source of power was a Cthulhu they were slowly awakening the more they took advantage of it, and by the time they realized their mistake, most of them died.
Star Ocean 3 had a big twist where it's discovered the known universe is a big MMORPG played with by another universe, and the people said other verse are so busy with this they don't notice or care that why they are enjoying themselves, their batshit leaders can exercise all sorts of ridiculous power over them and the people of MMORPG verse and they are ignorant of the atrocities said leaders are doing because they are too addicted to being lazy fucks.
Basically, Soret isn't so much covering new ground as he's taken ground visited before and applying it to the sacred cow of the very hedonistic shits autistically screeching about it and daring to show why their Paradise is really Inferno in disguise.
