Imagine the matrix came out today. A movie where people have become nothing more than disposable interchangeable sources of energy for a society run by machines. With an endless supply of media/simulated reality used to placate the human livestock and keep them from rising up. Oh and the pinnacle of human history is the 1990s. That all checks out way too much, there's no way this movie would be allowed to be made today.

To be fair, I'm sure it still sucked. I'm sure it was just as unfulfilling then as it is now, it just sucks WAY more now.
And the fun thing is we (GenX) are still working! So weโve just got to experience the fucking slow slide to oblivion where every day is just worse than the last! Yay!
At work, when people ask how it's going, I always say, "Every day is better than the next." Been doing it for years now. So far only one person has clocked that if each day is better than the day that comes after, that means every day is a new low.

where every day is just worse than the last! Yay!
What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
Yes, yes it is
Wow, that's messed up.
I can't even imagine. It felt hard growing up in the time that I did, but I look at what my kids are facing and I can't even imagine how it must feel.
Pretty fucking bleak. I feel for them too.
2 out of the 3 movies pictured involve job loss: one spree kicked off by losing the job, and one story about the tension of the "will they or won't they fire me" and the arbitrariness and unfairness of it all.
So no, only one of these involves unrest amidst a stable career. The others are about unstable careers.
Sure, but we were stuck at entry level jobs and told that the boomers were going to retire any day now and if we just stick with it, we'll shoot right to the top. Then as they started to retire, those jobs are not being filled and there is a fresh round of layoffs coming. Oh, and also being told by those same boomers that they owned a house by our age.
The guy in falling down got laid off. He went crazy because he didn't have a job anymore.
Isn't the point of "falling down" that
spoiler
he got fired/laid off from his defence industry job?
Yes, and in Office Space, they had consultants firing people left and right while others were asked to come in on the weekends.
...while management did fuck all.
They even tap Peter for management material when he stops giving a shit, like it's an expectation that you stop caring about things to be in charge.
I always understood it as Peter getting tapped for management not because he stopped giving a shit, but because he was honestly and accurately describing the root cause of problems caused by having so many middle managers (and he did that because he stopped giving a shit and just told them how fucked the workplace is)
My takeaway was not that he was giving them the info they need, but rather that his new persona was so charismatic that he became the one they liked & remembered. A lesson that it isn't what you know, but who you know.
I thought the whole point of Fight Club was the narrator realizing he was a terrible person, with or without Tyler.
I mean the film starts with him exploiting dying people so they will listen to him. Not recognizing that the only people open to listen are those dying, and he's exploiting their openness to lie to them and get the "crying" he needs. He doesn't give one flying fuck about what is happening to any of those dying people, he only barely stands up for Bob.
You're assuming a lot of media literacy out of the audience. Most people I know who are really into Fight Club miss all subtext (and quite a bit of text) and unironically see it as an indictment of modern society and a call for a "return" to a mythical hyper-masculine strength-based patriarchal society.
I love this comic because in the "make it or make it perfect" debate, I'd rather 100 flawed comics asking people to think then 1 perfect comic that does the same. Hell yeah to typos and imperfect art!
AI in most movies: Evil killing robot.
AI in reality: Evil robot that convinces others to kill, also makes bad "art" en masse that it hurts artists' visibility, also makes subpar code en masse that it hurts open source projects' visibility, not to mention it melts your brain.
(When will the first slasher movie come out, that features a troubled person getting addicted to a chatbot, which turns them into a serial killer?)
Is there any credit to artist?
im the artist. this is my first comic.
FYI it's forefathers. Those who came before.
Also:
buy
people
millionaires
And then I remember that sometimes typos are intentional engagement bait.
Based. It's a little hard to read the text tho
Source is this post by Reddit user ProfessionalOrder667. The user posts in the comments about being the original artist.
EDIT: See replies, OP is the original artist!
were the same person in fact i posted this comic here before reddit click on my profile and it says fermi comics as the name i dont now how to change the user.
Oh awesome! Glad you're here.
For future reference, if you put [OC] in the post title that's a good way to indicate that you're posting Original Content.
Thank you!
Any of you seeing the text too small and distorted?
You don't actually want to see that spelling. Small and distorted is much better.
I think men would misunderstand the message of fight club even more now and it would become a white supremacist hit.
Ah yes. Our for fathers
Don't you want to be an millionair?
To by shit I don't need?
Four fathers.
The real problem is avocado toast.
Do you not have spell check?
It costs too much. I can't afford to pay attention.
I see people living in tents who get up and go to work every morning. A person who works full time should be able to afford a home on their own, they shouldn't have to share a rent to afford housing. I don't scorn people who choose a rent rather than have a roommate at 40 years old. This is our reality.
It's incredible we haven't hanged them by their entails. On the contrary, we just elected another do-nothing government because they fed the identity politics of right-wing colonialist nationalists who think they're leftist freedom fighters.
Sometimes, though, they make more sense than they used to.
When I originally saw the Matrix in theaters, I fucking hated Cypher and his willingness to exchange the comforts of the Matrix over reality.
Now... Fuck, give me that steak, Agent Smith. I'm with Cypher, I'm not wasting my life saving all these jagoffs who would rather live in the fucking Matrix anyway. Can't beat em, join em.
Especially since you have no idea you're in the matrix. As far as you're concerned, you're just living life like normal.
Unfortunately, with my luck I'd still be poor, but being poor in 1999 America is still not that bad.
"If you could fight anyone from history, who would it be?"
"Donald Trump."
"Gross."
"What about you?"
"Elon Musk. Tall, long reach... Loser guys'll fight till they're burger."
later
"Thurnberg. I'd fight Greta Thurnberg."
"Ooo! Good answer!"
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