A Boring Dystopia

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70-year-old Grab rider proves age is just a number (www.freemalaysiatoday.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A "motivational" story about a 70 years old working 12 hours per day to earn rm100(equivalent to Usd20.87 today) to support his wife and two unemployed son.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

“Age is just a number” should not be used to justify people needing to work to survive at 70!

Somebody start the revolution. It’s time to eat the fucking rich. I’ll get the plates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Fork them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean can't we just slaughter them? I really don't want to eat them. Gross.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I eat what I kill. Why waste the meat?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is always better than "eat the rich". Because everyone means it metaphorically, until some edgy idiot says "duh I mean literally let's eat them huh huh", and then any meaningful call to action gets lost.

IMHO we should build systems outside government control (like Lemmy), but at least slaughtering the rich is something people might realistically do.