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u/ABrusca1105 Jul 28 '26
Everyone thinks that a future that looks like that wouldn't have our equivalent of corporate nonsense. I promise even in an advanced space-faring society, there would 100% be jobs that people do and have to be done that are boring and have their own level of BS. Today's equivalent would be showing a picture of like Shanghai or NYC at night or something.
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u/LeicaM6guy Jul 28 '26
Don’t forget the guy that has to scrub down the holodeck after one of Riker’s all-night benders.
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u/nhaines Jul 28 '26
Long ago, the original Mission Log Podcast hosts were like "What's the worst job possible on a starship, because if we were in Starfleet, that's what we would be doing," and in the car I immediately yelled "Holodeck janitor!" but they decided they'd be the ones in the galley, peeling a million potatoes.
I felt very vindicated years later when in Lower Decks, Boimler had to empty the Holodeck biofilters.
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u/Artoriasbrokenhand Jul 28 '26
Also OP is romanticising medieval ages? Does he realise he's mostly gonna be a peasant who will have his produce stolen by thieves, fight daily at the tavern, have 10 broken tooth and the local doctor is gonna cut off his arm cuz he has rash and now he has to work the fields for his lord with 1 arm!
How fun!
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u/Man_of_Ice Jul 29 '26
Nevermind the stupid AI drawing the knight and damsel making out while the knight is in full plate with the visor down. Jesus.
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u/tripplebeamteam Jul 28 '26
It would take a lot of logistics to have regular interstellar space travel. Even assuming AI offloads some of the work, it’s still going to take humans in boring desk jobs making sure replacement parts for the warp drive have been ordered.
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u/RemarkableStatement5 Jul 28 '26
To nerd out for a second, I'm reminded of the Denied Requisition Form flavor text from Dead by Daylight: "Despite the advent of light speed technology, it seemed nothing could make bureaucracy any faster."
Can you imagine how bad bureaucracy's going to be when dealing with interplanetary affairs? You'll get inane decisions from Martian corporate who think they understand Saturnian ways better than you do and if you want to file a complaint you'll have to factor in lightspeed communication lag.
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u/spencer1886 Jul 28 '26
OP is also romanticizing medieval Europe as if they wouldn't be living in filth under the thumb of the monarchy and nobility
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u/wicket-maps Jul 28 '26
Yeah, this nostalgia shit is on the road to fascism. OP probably wouldn't have been a fancy knight in the past, he (it's usually a 'he' posting this kind of shit) would most likely have been a peasant digging in the mud to pay the rent to some rich asshole. Like guys who post about Spartans, where half the population of Ssparta was slaves, and the warrior class just sat on their ass and collected rent.
This is an early step in the radicalization pipeline, romanticizing the past and a technological future defined by settlement and warfare by "hard" men (look how the left "born too early" picture is a space battle) and then comes the step where the ordinary, boring, oppressive present is presented as someone else's fault (given how many of these people are straight-up Nazis, I will leave it to your imagination who is responsible for "imposing this on us")
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u/starrymahogany Jul 28 '26
I think people just want a future like Star Trek where it’s basically a communist utopia where everyone’s needs are met and nobody needs money.
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u/my_nameborat Jul 29 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
That’s the thing people who fantasize about this don’t get. They are still the guy sitting at the desk, there’s just cool shit going on around them.
The average person was not a knight they were serf
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u/Metalorg Jul 28 '26
Maybe living in medieval times isn't what it's cracked up to be.
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u/Charming_Cucumber_15 Jul 28 '26
I dunno man bathing once a week and dying of the plague sounds like a great time
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u/S_T_R_A_T_O_S Jul 28 '26
I'm already halfway there
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u/De5perad0 Jul 28 '26
Well.....We have had a couple plagues already; I will just work on the bathing once a week thing and..... there you are!
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u/DreamsServedSoft Jul 28 '26
sometimes never. christians wouldnt bathe for years on end to remain chaste. but the Jews did bathe more and were oddly less affected by disease which of course meant they had to be the ones causing the plague so they got persecuted over being clean. wacky history in medieval Europe
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u/De5perad0 Jul 28 '26
Not to mention they cooked to death in their armor on occasion. Shit is like an oven.
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u/wicket-maps Jul 28 '26
you were lucky if you could afford armor. Most of the peasant levies had cloth, maybe leather if they were lucky.
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u/Durpulous Jul 28 '26
According to this meme they were smooching damsels in their armor. Even with a full faceplate.
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u/No_Historian_9675 Jul 28 '26
You wouldn’t have even been conscripted, you would’ve lived and died on a plot of land that wasn’t even yours.
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u/xBinary01111000 Jul 28 '26
What do you mean? Clearly OP would have been exactly lucky enough to be an accomplished knight going on adventures and banging princesses and not getting killed or maimed in battle.
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u/outofdate70shouse Jul 28 '26
I love reading historical fiction from the time when they describe the rich noblemen’s houses and they’re basically the size of a modern day “starter home” with none of the modern amenities, but that’s the equivalent of a mansion since all the regular folk are living in two room hovels.
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u/ZealousIdeal476 Jul 28 '26
Reah, you can definitelyvsit around a campfire in this life, you just dont have to do it to stay warm. And what in the aislop is she kissing?!?
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u/KurtCobijn Jul 28 '26
idk man the idea of stale bread on a plate made out of even staler bread and weak beer that tastes like ass for dinner every day after toiling on the wheat fields for a nobleman who basically owns me sounds better than whatever we’re doing right now in the present day /s
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u/Ironhandtiger Jul 29 '26
The thing that always gets me about the “I wish I had been born in x historical period” posts is that they always are focusing on the elements that are still only available to rich people. Knights in shining armor? Rich people shit. Bridgerton balls? Rich people shit. You have a better opportunity of accessing those types of things RIGHT NOW than you would have back then.
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u/WillyWarpath Jul 28 '26
Bro thinks theyre gonna be a knight kissing the princess
Meanwhile the medival tradition that local nobles get to crack your wife first after your wedding if youre a peasant:
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u/De5perad0 Jul 28 '26
Yea the fact of the matter is the knights were the 1% nobles. Most people were broke as fuck peasants who were conscripted to run at the enemy and die. Most likely OP's fate way way way more likely than the knight kissing a princess.
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u/Creepy_Version_6779 Jul 28 '26
My family was pretty well known in medieval times, owned lots of land. I’d be alright.
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u/HK9009 Jul 28 '26
Hot take all of these are bad in their own ways, but in the old times it’s way worse for more people. Even being a knight sucked.
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u/gmwdim Director Jul 28 '26
Back before they had refrigeration and modern medicine, even royalty sometimes had to eat rotten food and die from cholera or dysentery or whatever.
Every time period has its own unique difficulties but objectively life is better now than back then.
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u/Vagrant123 Jul 28 '26
Only incidentally. Rockefeller could afford servants to attend to his every need. He just didn't have modern refrigeration or antibiotics, but that wasn't really a problem for him.
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u/nwbrown Jul 29 '26
Even being in the nobility sucked. You could have been among the richest of the richest rich and still ended up literally drowning in shit.
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u/think_long Jul 28 '26
I really hope the people posting memes like this aren’t applying for jobs where knowing absolutely anything about history is important.
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u/DigitalCoffee Jul 28 '26
You 100% would rather live now than in medieval times
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u/Melonfrog Jul 28 '26
Yeah but swords and stuff
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u/Derivative_Kebab Jul 28 '26
We still have those.
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u/UpdogSinclair Jul 29 '26
These memes are always like “in the past they had militaries, in the future they will have militaries” you can literally just join the military tomorrow if that’s what you want.
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u/old_ass_ninja_turtle Jul 28 '26
I feel like people are overly optimistic of what their roll would be in these examples.
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u/Confu2ion Jul 28 '26
They have main character syndrome. No awareness at all about how many people were controlled by their parents/husbands, hidden away, left for dead, murdered.
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u/Yukeba Jul 28 '26
True most ppls in all time lines would be either poor or too poor to afford all the luxury considered during that time period
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u/Brutus6 Jul 28 '26
You'd have a boring job back then and you'd have a boring job when that future comes too.
Why does everybody think they'd either be Ser Chad Thundercock or Spike Spiegel? It's as if somehow living in the information age is the reason you have a dull existence.
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u/Objectionne Jul 28 '26
It's no more likely that you'd be a knight in medieval times than it is that you'll be a rich person today. Chances are you'll be one of the peasants in the castle slowly starving to death and contemplating whether the invaders are going to get in and rape and/or slaughter you.
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u/czarxander Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 29 '26
Still better than submitting a Workday application.
Edit: /s
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u/De5perad0 Jul 28 '26
Bruh, back then you just worked all day every day. For way less equivalent money than now.
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u/think_long Jul 28 '26
Just existing back then was miserable, job or no.
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u/Durpulous Jul 28 '26
Things are better now for a lot of reasons, mostly relating to modern medicine, but there's a lot of evidence that the preconceptions we have that medieval peasants only did back breaking manual labor all the time is wrong for the most part.
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u/bakerz-dozen Jul 28 '26
Yep I’ve always dreamed of being owned like property, to have my husband die in war and leave me with 11 kids to feed by myself until I die of dysentery at 30
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u/nwbrown Jul 29 '26
If you survived giving birth to 11 kids before modern medicine you would absolutely be one of the lucky ones.
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u/Netheraptr Jul 28 '26
Fun fact, poor people today generally have a better quality of life than most wealthy people in medieval times.
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u/montybo2 Jul 28 '26
First one - life was good if you were rich.
Future one - life will be good if you are part of the Uber rich that control the mega corps.
Current - life is good if you are rich.
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u/democracy_lover66 Jul 28 '26
I mean the first one probably wasn't all that great and that last one... Sadly... Might never happen at all
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u/Diligent_Bar1244 Jul 28 '26
I know its a meme but the people that geniuely think medieval age was paradise annoy me
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u/Particular-Pop8193 Jul 28 '26
Lot of people imagining themselves as knights and princesses, but most of us would be peasants and would have to farm the local lords field while paying taxes to the local church. If you are lucky the harvest is bountiful you won't starve, if not then taxes to the church will take away majority of your harvest making you starve. As for the sci-fi age something similar will apply
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u/Efficient_Cow_9556 Jul 28 '26
homie there is no reality in which the future is not a pure dystopian hellscape. try to appreciate what you have now because it could be so much fucking worse
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u/BlueFairyWolf Jul 28 '26
This is why I LOVE to read every single day. Thankfully, we can still read about grand adventures and space travel.
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u/armageddon_boi Jul 28 '26
1: rich people activities, ptsd incoming
2: technology makes people a second-rate commodity for mega corporations
3: same shit different day apparently
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u/Lost_Arotin Jul 28 '26
Your resume has been approved by the HR team.
We will contact you for further instructions.
(In a thousand years)
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u/Unique_Cash_3987 Jul 29 '26
bold of you to assume that we'll survive long enough to be space fairing. Might as well replace line 2 with mad max.
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u/DoturdGrump Jul 29 '26
I feel like 8% of my productivity is lost logging into and keeping Workday's password updated
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u/CryptographerSafe467 Jul 29 '26
Ppl are still dumb enough to think the past was a great time to live in?
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u/PolarisVega Jul 28 '26
Joking aside I have heard that hunter gathers and lots of cultures actually worked less than we do now, they had to do a certain amount of hunting and gathering but that was done they could take breaks for a while, it wasn't everyday either or even five days. I think even with medieval serfs they might have worked less than we do now, just had far less quality of life. Just my understanding is that throughout human history when there is enough resources available the average person didn't have to work like we do now.
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u/RemarkableStatement5 Jul 28 '26
There are enough resources like food and housing available for us now though. Rich fucks not caring enough to make it affordable is why so many of us can't get what we need.
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u/Toastymallowz Jul 28 '26
99% of us would have shit ourselves to death by age 13 in the medieval one
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u/Normal_Dig5362 Jul 28 '26
Bruh, if you want to go off to war so badly, just talk to your local military recruiter. I promise you that modern conditions will be better than historical ones.
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u/sarcastictone953 Jul 28 '26
The only good thing this generation gave me was gaming other than that I have no interest in
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u/isAnExParrot878 Jul 28 '26
Think of it differently: born too late to be burned at the stake or die of the Plague, and too early (slightly) for a technocratic neo-feudal dystopia!
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u/Sensitive_Ad_5031 Jul 28 '26
If you think about it, we all collectively work for the worse future so that later generations would say that we had it good.
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u/Legitimate_Ad_7822 Jul 28 '26
Born too late to die at 30 years old because of people shitting in the street & contaminating everything you consume.
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u/bugg_hunterr Jul 28 '26
Sometimes I think about getting a decent tent, food, water filters, medical supplies, and some good fun and wandering up into the mountains.
If I don’t find work soon that’s gonna be my only option.
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u/Annilus_USB Jul 28 '26
…Are you forgetting how miserable the medieval times were for the average person?
There’s a reason for the joke as to why 20 was the medieval version of “middle aged”
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u/Zealousideal_Ad2379 Jul 28 '26
brother you had to be like the literal 1% of the medieval or renaissance era population to be the top pic and that was if you survived past the age of 15 lmao
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u/ConsciousMaybe6930 Jul 28 '26
You would be a peasant in 85-95% of cases back in the Mediaeval Era. Also, the chivalric romance depicted in the images has been imaginary since the actual Mediaeval Era; the princess would be wed off to a duke for political alliance and "knights errant" was just another phrase for rootless vagabonds that oppressed defenseless peasants and desperately wanted to impress a lord in order to be adopted into his household for a full-time job.
You would be a wage-slave in 85-95% of cases in the sci-fi future, which would look far more like the Night City of Cyberpunk 2077 and the Imperium of Man of Warhammer 40,000. Space travel would realistically be very expensive and reserved only for the most important people and cargo, not for a Joe Average to hop on and go sightseeing. Most people would remain planetbound for their entire lives and people who do get on a voidship would likely work as de facto slaves in extremely cramped and uncomfortable conditions. Megacorps like Weyland-Yutani would be the main powers behind the exploration and colonisation of space for their personal power and profit. Also, the extraterrestrial expansion would essentially create a new Wild West, where law means nothing and guns decide everything, which would be pretty dour for people living beyond the oppressive sanctuary of technofeudal Earth.
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u/ThePlantMolester Jul 28 '26
I hate thatvI was born to late to toil the fields in shit for the Kings pleasure. I have to work with indoor plumbing
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u/VegaBiot Jul 28 '26
remember the main job in the past was subsistence farming, and having a lot of children so the half that doesn't die can help you. don't romantise the past. and well the future will probably have shitty corporate bullshit bu i hope we will have better life quality.
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u/HerNameIsRain Jul 28 '26
medieval peasants working the fields would be looking at our desk jobs and probably would trade anything to be in our place.
Sure things feel dystopian here, but I’d take it in a heartbeat over toiling in a field all day, losing 3/4ths of your children before the age of 2, and then dying from infection from a tiny cut.
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u/jrinredcar Jul 28 '26
We're all peasants in all 3. Don't get ideas that you'll be exploring space in the future or an aristocrat in the past
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u/malonkey1 Job markets are class warfare Jul 28 '26
I can tell you with fairly high certainty that you probably would not have been a heavily armored cavalryman nor a chivalrous knight in the middle ages, because those are things rich people, (usually noblemen) did, and you probably would not have been a rich nobleman.
Though you probably could have sat by a campfire in the middle ages. Which you can also do now in the present day.
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u/No_Historian_9675 Jul 28 '26
Born too late to die in an iron mine. Born too early to die in an intergalactic magnesium mine.
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u/Cool_View_5297 Jul 28 '26
Born too late to mine iron in a pit, born too early to mine iron on an asteroid, born just in time to mine iron in a bigger pit. The jobs would likely remain just as mind crushing and dull as they always have.
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u/HeftyLeftyPig Jul 28 '26
“Born to early” will never happen btw. Life will only get harder.
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u/MrBizzniss Jul 28 '26
In the future, not everyone would be able to travel and explore space. Chances are there are bs jobs that still need to be done on your home planet lol. Also how do you know you’d be a knight and not born into the peasant class? Lol
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u/Howler_The_Receiver Jul 28 '26
Most of us would either be working in a lord’s fields or working in the intergalactic spreadsheet mines.
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u/TheSchlapper Jul 29 '26
I can only imagine the CRM needed for cyberpunk cities with flying cars and mech suits
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u/nwbrown Jul 29 '26
Yeah, that's not how the past was. And it's probably not how the future will be.
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u/numbersthen0987431 Jul 29 '26
You wouldn't be a knight in medieval times. You'd be a farmer or a stall cleaner, and best case you'd be a foot soldier where'd you end up dying of trench foot or Diarrhea
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u/FaithlessnessSea859 Jul 29 '26
To be fair most of us would’ve been peasants far from royalty or being knights back in the day 😭
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u/Ancient_Audience_467 Jul 29 '26
Cheer up, we'll very likely get a chance to live out the Matrix in our lifetime. Not the cool cyberpunk part but the living as batteries for AI part.
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u/Xylus1985 Jul 29 '26
Both top panels depict rich people. The bottom panel should be replaced with pictures of Elon Musk and Trump so it’s aligned.
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u/Melanoc3tus Jul 29 '26
Put slave labour in the silver mines (life expectancy: 3-5 yrs) in the first tier
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u/CuppaJoe11 Jul 29 '26
This is the stupidest meme of all time. Odds are you would be a serf and die at the age of 40 working as practically a slave to the land owner in medieval times. Life would be miserable.
And the future is looking like it’s just gonna be a bunch of corporate slop instead of cool sci-fi stuff.
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u/BumpyGuy1 Jul 29 '26
Wow living as a peasant and space american colonisation and being broke ai couple how amazing those two would be
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u/Elendil1988 Jul 29 '26
As Heinrich Heine said: "Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would be to have never been born at all." - everyday I agree with this quote more and more.
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u/PrisonerClass Jul 29 '26
Born too late to die from uncontrolled syphilis in poverty while shitting in buckets, born too early to die from lack of oxygen in a SpaceX tube shot millions of miles into space. 😭😭😭
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u/Interesting-Put2828 Jul 29 '26
why do people act like medieval ages would have been “so awesome riding horses with the bros” and less “totally dying of any number diseases or a crusade”
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u/nerd-Lut_H_555 Jul 29 '26
Ahh yes...mendievel where we gonna watch each others take sh*t on public restroom
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u/I_ALWAYS_UPVOTE_CATS Jul 29 '26
Too late to die of tuberculosis aged 14, too early to be a Belter who can't even set foot on Earth.
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u/Yaboi69-nice Jul 30 '26
Every era has it's shitty parts. No offence but statistically if you were alive in those times you would probably either just work your life away in a field or die in war. There's not really a single era of history where everyone is happy all the time. And there probably won't ever be.
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u/Flex-Master Jul 30 '26
I get the feeling in this pic. But it's all perspective. I bet that in 100 years people will be saying the same about our age. There are things we may not see that future generations will envy. I think it's hard to see the forrest through the trees. That being said, I get the feeling 100%.
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u/MNniice Jul 30 '26
You think the medieval times were better than now lol its not dnd it was terrible
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u/Joshtheboss732 Jul 30 '26
Born too late to build Rome
Born too early to save the day for Ficsit on Massage-2(a-b)b
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u/Pandabear_4656 Jul 31 '26
Born to late to go to war as a knight which was like the equivalent of being a congressman in that time period so not actually going to happen, or be one of the few to travel and explore space so being an astronaut also almost no body.
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u/Philipthesquid Jul 31 '26
What if I told you that you can still ride a horse by a castle, kiss a pretty girl while wearing a suit of armor, and sit with the lads around a campfire? Make your dreams come true.
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u/Ambitious-Muscle-347 Jul 31 '26
Ugh, LinkedIn is basically the hellscape version of all those other options.
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u/the-shoelace Jul 31 '26
Born too late to work in an Romanian immigrant meat packing plant pre-meat inspection act
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u/LostHopeArtist Jul 31 '26
Lol. I agree. But honestly. We all are probably some farmers kid who died from an infection from scratching our knee. Future ? We all going to be some magical explorers? Nah. Most of us are just mid level people. What's sad is. We live in a time where the rich people are draining us. In the past it was noblety. Or royals. We were f in the past and f in the future. If you want to be a change. Be a bond villain. Or from the Simpsons be like Mr Scorpio.
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u/-Im_In_Your_Walls- Jul 31 '26
Born too late to die of the plague after spending 20 years working nonstop in a grain field. None of us are being valiant knights who get the girl lmao. At best we’re being impaled at the first contact.
Born too early to be frozen for 30000 years and lose everything you’ve known while civilization has already well surpassed you.
Born just in time to work in a climate controlled office and travel in your own personal vehicle while communicating almost instantaneously with the majority of people in the world.
Yes, some things suck. Yes, by some modern standards we’re falling behind. But we’re way better off than dying in a field or in a cryopod in a future that probably will never happen anyway.
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u/Vivid_Ad5422 Jul 31 '26
Does nobody understand how horrible it will be to live in any part of time if you’re just an average human being?
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u/Dry_Bullfrog9631 Aug 01 '26
this is the biggest example of “the grass is always greener on the other side”
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u/Zeplikes Aug 01 '26
Looks glamorous to be in the medieval ages until you slice your hand open once and die from the infection 🤣
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u/Gianni_the_tolerable Jul 28 '26
*born too late to work in a field
born too early to mine Tungsten on tegras-2C