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Systemic failure we’re all dealing with. You did all you were told to do, you went to school, you sat down, you listened and you got the degree. Then maybe you got the job, maybe you just now lost the job, and the wages didn’t keep up with inflation, so you can’t get the house and you can’t get the family, too expensive.
Everything got expensive, then the world complains why you aren’t having any children, why you’re not consuming. You turn on the tv or your podcasts and you see illiterate people get platformed spouting nonsense about conspiracy theories and to do your research.
Then you see this comic and you see the connection. You see that a promise was broken. You did your part but the system ripped you off. You’re angry or depressed. It’s time to take action. Vote for Count Binface.
Lol doing everything right and taking the advice of people that never actually did anything all that exciting without someone else to hand them that opportunity is pretty funny. Here’s an alternate translation of this: “I did the exact same thing everyone else did and expected that to lead to anything but what everyone else got, which considering everyone did it already, was very little “.
The answer is always to break the mold and disrupt shit.