A boring dystopia. That’s where we’re headed.
Not even a fun one with zombies or mutated talking animals.
Just the haves and have-nots getting further and further apart.
Here are some prime, sad cringe examples from the popular subreddit:
1. It went so far it doesn’t seem real anymore… But it is.
2. “Software update failure? Better walk son”
3. Whoever made this billboard can shove it up their ass
4. How are people even existing?
5. We have reached gas prices they thought would be apocalyptic back in 2007 (I Am Legend)
6. Capitalism reinventing itself — or so they say…
7. Problem solved!
8. Ah yeah heaven.
9. Over 2,000 pounds of fresh pork being rejected by the walmart distribution center because the sell by dates occur when their stores are closed for Thanksgiving. This product will still be safe to eat for the next 15 days but they won’t even attempt to sell. This will end up in a dumpster today.
10. Shame that nobody could erase this with the stroke of a pen, eh?
11. What a time to be alive
12. Glad critical medical care is being taken care of by private companies that definitely give a shit
13. No subtlety anymore
14. The fact that people have to prevent bullying for wearing a mask since masks have been politicized
15. This year, give your special someone the gift of accessing the American healthcare system
16. We make “too much” to qualify for free text books, so my kindergarten daughter’s PUBLIC SCHOOL is threatening to send us to collections and impose court and legal fees if we don’t pay for text books
17. The military gets hundreds of billions of dollars a year, yet soldiers have to beg civilians for the right to call their families.
18. This is Veterans Row. A 3 block homeless camp in West L.A. where homeless veterans live in.
19. Baby Formula shortage
20. My local small town grocery store is running out of food. Their main supplier shut down deliveries, due to a Covid outbreak among their whole workforce. My town is in trouble.
21. Big banks using heavily edited John Stuart Mill Quotes in their advertising.
22. daaamn, what a good ideea
23. I hate it here…
24. How is this legal?
25. Walmart is selling “Support Local” shirts.
26. A one month supply of my son’s new cystic fibrosis medicine. At $24,000, it’s the most expensive thing I’ve ever held in one hand.
27. Seen in Brooklyn. This isn’t clever, Doordash. Just sad.
28. Scumbag profiting off the formula shortage.
29. This billboard like 100 ft off my college campus
30. How is underpaid child labor legal?
31. A company that charges $300 for insulin tells us to help each other.
32. Do not enjoy meals during your 13 h shift
33. Liberalism.jpg
34. Wow.
35. Aww you’ve been sexually harassed? Well Walmart is the REAL victim here
36. Some non-Americans were surprised when I said our performance reviews hold sick days against us
37. I think the fact that Texas Roadhouse employees are forced to wear this to work is very dystopian.
38. Sums it up pithily
39. Hospitals: Don’t forget to pay us $27 before visiting your loved one
40. How long until we match this level of casual cruelty and turn against these motherfuckers?
41. Free enterprise strikes again
42. We don’t really care about leukemia, but if you give us a good review…
43. Amazon employees who worked over 10 hours on Easter Sunday were ‘lucky enough’ to potentially win a $2 snack pack.
44. reality is often disappointing
45. Next!
46.
47. This was what Kaiser Permanente gave to their nurses to recognize them during nurses week.
48. Good Job guys, BUT don’t touch, the food is just for show
49. Forcing workers to come in during a category 4 hurricane.
50. Taco Bell instructing its employees what they can and cannot say on the workers’ own social media
h/t: Reddit, Pleated-Jeans