The reality where people cannot afford $10-20 things. And the corporations just start charging those poor people interest.
Of course. How else do you keep poor people poor and rich richer.
Poor people: charge them extra for not affording things.
Rich people: let them buy things they don’t need but can afford and then charge poor people to rent those things.
Born too late to buy a house.
Born too soon to be forced to evacuate your city because of the rise of sea levels.
Born just in time to see the deaths of the major democracies in the world.
As Ben Shapiro so perfectly put it:
If the sea level rises, just sell your house and leave
If you’re willing to buy a flooded underwater house let me know, i have a deal for you 👌
The kingdom of atlantis needs housing. We just need to get a hold of aqua man.
Look on the bright side, if Putin and Trump start launching the nukes in a dick measuring contest, you will probably die of radiation poisoning long before sea level rise affects you.
Why would you want to see the death of democracy. I live in a democracy and I do my best to do my part and to be reasonable. The people are made up of persons and you have the ability to speak your mind and vote how you see fit.
Also respect all people even if you disagree with them or dislike them
Why would you like to need to finance a pizza from domino’s? You wouldn’t. The whole meme format is that the last option sucks.
I believe the option is more likely to be for people having large parties.
If you were desperate for food you might
The best answer is to go to the food pantry
Assuming the finance a pizza bit is true, it’s a sign that the American economy is on the brink of a deflationary spiral. Debt is being created, but at some point, it will not be paid back in sufficient amounts, and then the capital to create more debt will dry up, resulting in the amount of money in the economy drying up as well. Businesses will be forced to lower prices and scale back operations, which will result in rising unemployment. Which in turn will result in even less money in the economy, perpetuating the circle.
Thats the nature of an economy where most currency circulating is actually just debt.
It’s not unlike the economies of ancient Mesopotamia. A farmer who wanted beer would write a promissory note for a few bushels of barley in some clay and give it to the brewer. The brewer could then either wait to collect it at harvest, or trade that note with someone else for something they needed. This would be passed around until it ended up in the hands of people with real wealth, and if the farmer couldn’t pay the wealthy person would take whatever they wanted.
It’s thought that this is why in many near Eastern societies women are expected to dress plainly, as they wouldn’t be chosen when the rich asshole showed up to collect on his debt. One way some societies solved this problem without violence or slavery was to eliminate all debts every several years.
This is from David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years” and I highly recommend it.
In the bible, the regular elimination of all debt was called the “Jubilee”
I’d be very curious to see how many people actually use this option and for what price. I could see a family living paycheck to paycheck using this for a child’s birthday party. (Don’t misinterpret that statement as giddiness.)
at this point an economic crash seems like the only possible future, but I’m not sure if it would be good for your average person or if the top 1% would take advantage of it to get even richer
Most of the world is already in an economic recession in the sense that median purchasing power of is dropping fast.
However economist are great at fudging the numbers to show “gdp growth”. It true, absolute gdp is rising but it doesn’t mean anything if it’s evenly distributed.
Pay over six weeks with what fucking money? Seems like everyone has a fucking “job” to waste my time interviewing for, but no one has a fucking “job” that pays me or even lets me participate in society for free.
Desperately hoping this is sarcasm, but in case it isn’t, I have applied for over 350 jobs in my field and gotten zero offers. I’m trying like hell to get to work but employers will not take me. If it were that simple, I’d be working.
To clarify, by
but no one has a fucking “job” that … even lets me participate in society for free
I really meant that I can’t even find unpaid internships, training programs, or any way to participate in my field unless I literally start from scratch by myself.
Employers can’t find good candidates either. The entire system is broken and AI made it so much worse. In person events are the only way these days
Just to try to help here: have you considered applying for a job abroad? There’s a few countries that have labour shortages in a lot of areas, mostly European countries.
EVA nautilus live is basically exploring space irl. Except it’s the bottom of the ocean. They stream every day.
To be fair, short of rapid depressurization or suicide, dying that way is hard to do in space. Modern spacecraft have relatively safe environments; no Trek style plasma conduits or transporters to screw that up. The impacts that radiation and zero-g have on the human body are also factored into the mission way in advance. Even crew homicide is carefully mitigated with psych evals and tests, prior to launch.
Instead you have a slew of less fun alternatives. Limited food/water/O2, heating, tumbling into the void on a spacewalk, navigation error, all set up slow and agonizing ways to go. Especially that last one - you could wind up knowing that you’re going to die a whole month ahead of time, with nothing to do but wait.
