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info1234's avatar

In a fallen world. There are many traps. For everyone. From the Alphas down to the omegas.

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12ga's avatar

Skeletor: remember, if you’re in the rat race… you’re a rat. You’re content with garbage. *scurries off* Until we meet again!

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osis's avatar

When will women wake to the reality that social media is a losers game? That is the next reformation.

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Codex redux's avatar

Lacey rules. Killer visual storytelling.

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The Keeper of the Flame's avatar

Get busy living, or get busy dying...

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Masked Menace's avatar

Wait a minute, you mean fighting traffic and sitting in a cubical five days a week, day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year, decade after decade, isn't liberating? Well, you've come a long way, baby.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=you%27ve%20come%20a%20long%20way%20baby&view=detail&mid=B596BD5BE57B46636E9DB596BD5BE57B46636E9D&ajaxhist=0

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Britt's avatar

It depends. After dad did his 20 years in the Air Force he had zero savings. Spent 15 years in a cubicle farm and made enough to retire in his 50's and leave my brother and I a million dollar estate 20 years later

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JohnR219's avatar

Twenty years in the military gets you a pension and the GI Bill benefits too. He didn't leave empty handed.

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Britt's avatar

Pension was $24K/year, so pretty much nothing. Never used military doctors after leaving the Air Force and used the GI Bill to finish school in like '78

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Masked Menace's avatar

I'm glad he did well, and that you and your brother benefited. However, in the current fake economy based solely on continual credit creation, a million dollars isn't what it used to be.

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Britt's avatar

My half was more than enough to buy land and build a house, a new truck and still have a couple hundred thousand in the bank... in the fastest growing metro area in the US three years straight. Don't worry, its defensible and far enough out of the city I should be ok when the SHTF

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Beery Swine's avatar

This underlines, I think, the importance of routine and familiarity to most people. I'm sure Vox understands that this is the case, despite having the sigma urge to just pack up and move on (a feeling and concept almost completely foreign to me).

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The Kurgan's avatar

I especially love the meta-ness of the TV dialogue. Golf clap.

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JerseyGeneral's avatar

I wonder if mice refer to this concept as The Human Race

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a  valid name's avatar

The Unsatisfied Career Woman?

I don't regularly follow the comic but I'm guessing that's the archetype on display here.

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Okrahead's avatar

The gilded cage is still a cage.

Only learning and believing the truth will free you.

But the truth is often frightening and sometimes painful.

So back to the gilded cage we go.

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BodrevBodrev's avatar

Gilded? Nowadays they can barely cover rent.

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Okrahead's avatar

Xanax and box wine make it all go away.

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ImperialistCanuck's avatar

I know it's not the thing that's supposed to be the focus, but I got a chuckle from the looks of the two buff guys in the TV background. They couldn't be more bored of their women having a catfight over a pair of keys.

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Coffee Guy Chris's avatar

This is where their delusion comes into play. Career chasing women delusionally believe they enjoy what they do, but it’s apparent they’re actually miserable.

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Uncouth Barbarian's avatar

The human ability to avoid problems is amazingly high.

And with women it reaches its perfection.

It's amazing that a single woman can get anything accomplished at all.

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Richard III's avatar

Gotta love our GIRLIES!!!

Their brains are SO FLEXIBLE!!!

They don't let REALITY get in their way...

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Snowyteller's avatar

It's easy to rot in place.

It's hard living that way.

If you can call it living.

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N Bear's avatar

Another one.

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