A Boring Dystopia

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These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. (64.media.tumblr.com)

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Parent, forced to choose between poverty and caring for child with cancer, gets a helping hand from coworkers when their employer would just let them starve.

[–] Blackhole 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Their employer is the government.... our tax dollars and voting record is why this happened.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sure the top military generals have unlimited sick days though (the soldiers can go fuck themselves they should be dying for the empire anyways). Same for senators and congress people who get multi-week paid holidays every year while the country's stack of pending bills and legislation get higher and higher. So it all balances out in the end!

[–] Blackhole 1 points 7 months ago

Yes. The people in the highest echelons of our society get more time off. Not sure if you're aware of this or not, but they also get paid a lot more