I mean I graduated high school in 2014 and it was absolutely challenging to find a job, buy a house, afford groceries, etc. So challenging, in fact, that I only managed one of those things. Like that’s why I developed anxiety, because my brain was (rightly!) occupied with the thought that I would never be able to get a job and be independent in the contemporary economy, which was completely correct.

Things are worse now for sure but shit was bad back then too.

Challenges in 2034:

• Survive infancy with no medical care except the LLM your assigned insurance conglomerate provides. (Which is only able to prescribe Ozempic and anxiolytics.
• Hack the pre-installed digitized Elon Musk consciousness out of your mandatory XTesLink™ Not-An-Enslavement-Device™ brain implant without letting him find out beforehand lest he trigger the built-in “re-education” module.
• Escape the coal mine without exceeding your quota of oxygen, triggering the alarm.
• Don’t die of radiation poisoning. Or Sars-CoV-2029. Or high-velocity lead poisonin due to looking “ethnic” in the vicinity of a Paw Patrol™ robotic police unit.

Y’all were buying houses in 2014?? I thought we were well and truly fucked by that point.

Housing: Hide in ceiling of a store (make sure its a corporate chain, not small bussiness)

Food: Shoplift the store at night

Job: You don’t need one

Profit?

(/jk but is it actually possible to hide in a store and not get noticed? 🤔)