this post was submitted on 13 May 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The rich have always imitated the rest of us.

Tattoos used to see you barred from many military and civil service organizations. Now ink is considered cosmopolitan and they're allowed.

Low-income service workers used to occupy the top floors of residential buildings, and even set up makeshift accomodation on building roofs. They called them penthouses.

Look at the shift in treatment of marijuana in the United States over the last decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

can I have a source for that second claim? Wikipedia says penthouses were specifically designed to be upscale property as early as 1923

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

My understanding is prior to the invention of the elevator, the expensive floor was the ground floor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

like half of the Grateful Dead tour on the late 80s and early 90s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

this is the culture of most of my city. lots of people in very expensive clothes, beards, and etc that make them look like semi homeless bums. who work for a tech company and are banking six figures.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tech people look like semi homeless bums because we don't know how to dress ourselves. We aren't buying expensive clothes. We're spending our money on hardware, goofy nerdy shit, or investing in stonks for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

You'll be sitting all day, might as well be comfortable.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's just called Burning Man

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Is that like your brother or what?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Now thats what I call appropriating.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You'll never live like common people. You'll never do whatever common people do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Papa Meat!!!

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