• TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
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    you can be anything if you put your mind to it

    if you don’t get a college education you’ll never get a good job

    if you can’t afford to live alone you should get a roommate

    your company cannot afford to give you a cost of living wage, because profits need to be constantly increasing, regardless of sales

    you can’t go bankrupt on student debt

    your debt to income ratio is too high to qualify for this loan

    your bank is overdrawn, you’ll need to pay a fee

    You cannot qualify for this $500,000 studio apartment mortgage without $40,000 down

    The industry you work in has been replaced by machines

    Your non-union job was terminated because you could not meet the goals given to your robot coworkes, so you don’t qualify for unemployment

    You aren’t qualified for anything else, and the jobs you apply to are looking for someone more youthful.

    Your health insurance ran out, so you’re putting off important medical appointments and cutting back on prescriptions

    You are now in the hospital because you ignored your health. You won’t be able to leave for several weeks. In that time you will lose your housing, your things, and what’s left of your savings. If you don’t die in this hospital bed, you will be on the street. Old, unqualified, and unable to get assistance

    I’m sorry, you are not allowed to kill yourself. No one gets to escape.

  • OmltCat@lemmy.world
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    I have alway been wondering who are actually drawing all these pictures.

    That’s a awful lot of money to commission an artist to make all these shitposts.

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      I believe WikiHow has staff on hand who draws for these articles. And they mostly trace off stock images, anyway.

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      Right now, you can go on Fiverr to hire a random person around the world to draw this for a few bucks.

      I got a really awful full-color single page comic drawn for $20 by someone in Eastern Europe. Probably 2-4 hours of work, but the dollar stretches higher there.

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    Hey, at least the person in this image got a new hairstyle, new clothes, their ears pierced, and a new bracelet. Is it just me, or are they more fem coded now?