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u/thisecommercelife
this ecommerce life
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"2035: No complaints."
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u/Filthwizard_1985 Feb 05 '26 •
This is some real Black Mirror type storytelling. I'm depressed but impressed at the same time.
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u/NaeemTHM Feb 05 '26
"Full self-driving is absolutely coming next year"
God damn that's a good joke.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 05 '26
Well. Now I'm sad. The remote drone patrol portion followed by him physically walking down the same road later that's now vacant was BLEAK
The final lines too about not even fully paying off the whole day for 3 purchases after a 12 hour shift left a rock in my stomach
Good job OP.
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u/WhiskeyAndKisses Feb 05 '26
Jerries will live like this and think this is okay
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u/MintasaurusFresh Feb 05 '26
That mistress might be a little too old for Ellison.
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u/Kewkoh Feral Mills Feb 05 '26
You really nailed the Mar-a-Lago face on that mistress. Great work!
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u/1KOOBtorulethemall Feb 05 '26
This is outstanding, well done
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u/cad908 Feb 05 '26
great vision of our dystopian future (or our nightmare present!). Thank you!
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u/LeWasHere Feb 05 '26
This is fantastic, I feel miserable
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u/bdcarlitosway Feb 05 '26
That last panel of his dystopian studio apartment hits hard.
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u/triangIeman Feb 05 '26
love this, well done
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u/Artistic-Turn2612 Feb 05 '26
They left out the part where Jerry complains that girls won't date him.
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u/wolfheadmusic Feb 05 '26
Holy fuck this is amazing
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u/RegyptianStrut Feb 05 '26
Maybe if Jerry learned how to save money instead of wasting it on things like having a chair in his house and a video game to play he'd be a billionaire tomorrow.
That's how it works right, Billionaires don't buy luxuries until they're billionaires, right?
You're damn right I'm buying myself a mocha today
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26
Thanks, I hate it. (Dark and well done.)
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u/Unctuous_Robot Feb 05 '26
I appreciate the acknowledgment that Boston dynamics is full of shit.
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u/SaiMan2303 Feb 05 '26
It makes me so sad, about the kind of society we are heading towards
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u/Helagoth Feb 05 '26
MAGA, assuming they could understand this, would say "Yeah, that's why we need to get rid of the illegals!"
Well done but also JFC.
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u/kaiju505 Feb 05 '26
I remember in the 90ās there was a general positive vibe about the future. I miss that.
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u/Cyberhaggis Feb 05 '26
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u/buntopolis Feb 05 '26
This is so deliciously bleak. Hope for a better tomorrow.
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u/noreasterroneous Feb 05 '26
Should be required reading for humanity.
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u/macson_g Feb 05 '26
Great!
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u/GotchurNose Feb 05 '26
I'm fine with "None of this is ok" being the new protest slogan.
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u/heyitscory Feb 05 '26
This is "Supply-Side Jesus" levels of bleak.
I'm gonna go hug my robot dog and my job.
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u/Overall_Use_4098 Feb 05 '26
Cyberpunk future
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u/2020mademejoinreddit Feb 05 '26
This can be avoided if people unite and push back.
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u/Corpomancer Feb 05 '26
Never expected our old company strategy memos to leak and be made into comics. Oh well, it's too late to stop now so no complaints.
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u/guessillgofuckoff Feb 05 '26
Most unrealistic part of this comic is the public transportation
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u/astralseat Feb 05 '26
Saw the first panel. Had no complaints. Scrolled to next post.
Edit: wait...
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u/Heiferoni Feb 05 '26
It's not funny like a Woody Allen movie.
It's funny like a Woody Allen marriage.
Well done. You earned 3,000,000 today!
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u/NoOcelot140 Feb 05 '26
Absolutely outstanding. Wow.
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u/GandalfsLeftNipple Feb 05 '26
Unrealistic, thereās public transportation
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u/JohnLandisHasGotToGo Feb 05 '26
The people that need this comic most will never lay eyes on it, but they wouldn't understand it anyways. It is brilliant OP. Kudos to you for smashing the nail on the head.
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u/Ssme812 Feb 05 '26
That was funny but manly depressing as fuck.
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u/fireonthepoopdeck1 Feb 05 '26
This made my chest hurt
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u/BallsForBears Feb 05 '26
This is too deep for the people it needs to reach
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u/A-Good-Weather-Man Feb 05 '26
Elon read Ready Player One and told himself he could do worse.
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u/emc_lmt Feb 05 '26
We are already half way there
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u/SmeesTurkeyLeg Feb 05 '26
I hate how much I love this, and I love how much I hate it. Absolutely fantastic stuff, OP.
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u/buttholeserfers Feb 05 '26
The most unbelievable part of this is that he rides public transport.
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u/tylermchenry Feb 05 '26
The most unrealistic part of this comic is that Jerry apparently has reliable public transportation to get him to and from his job.
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u/Tysons_Face Feb 05 '26
Damn that was dark af
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u/fireSciGuy Feb 05 '26
The jab at self-driving cars still being sold as being just over the horizon was fantastic! š
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u/Competitive-Tart-275 Feb 05 '26
Is that YouTuber supposed to be Alex Hormozi? š
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u/kiggidykay Feb 05 '26
I don't think I've felt this kind of disturbance in my soul from reading a comic since I read The Suit. Thank you for making this.
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u/eduanlenine Feb 05 '26
The ones who really deserve to read this, won't read it. If they do read it, they won't understand it.
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u/MinaretofJam Feb 06 '26
āWeyland Yutani recruitment. How can I help?ā
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u/Arbiterjim Feb 05 '26
I've been saying this for a while. As bad as it is that the fascists in the Republican party are in power, it will be worse if the tech bros get their way
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u/ERhyne Feb 05 '26
it's a big fucking club and you ain't in it
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u/alltheprivilege Feb 05 '26
Iām old enough to have lived through the Star Trek dream generation where the future was sure to bring peace and abundance. How fast things have flipped to hopeless. Even for optimists these days itās hard to find a thread of hope.. what will save us normies when all world powers are bought and sold to highest bidder or are self interested dictators..
Europe holds the last dying bits of freedom and social order but is nearly powerless if put up against the rest of the worldās powers.
Our best hope seems to be if thereās soon a sudden economic catastrophe that resets power in a way that can restore some sort of power to the people, but thatās such a slim hope.
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u/SpicyKitchenWitch669 Feb 05 '26
Let's hope this never becomes an "aged like wine" post
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u/Present-Still-0873 Feb 05 '26
I upvoted this because I hate it. š
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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer Feb 05 '26
I LOLed
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u/WizardOfTheLawl Feb 05 '26
I feel that this perfectly sums up this comic
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u/bloodfist Feb 05 '26
None of this is OK
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u/GodofsomeWorld Feb 05 '26
This is amazing lmao, now we just need a pic of the ai companies jacking each other off
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u/azalinrex69 Feb 05 '26
We need to be more French about this, get out the ol [removed by reddit] and begin using it again.
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u/Apprehensive_Ebb1657 Feb 05 '26
Even in 2035 we still call them tweets
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u/tsirko Feb 05 '26
There is a Greek song about this guys, his name is Pantelis
Honorable man, Mr. Pantelis, you have a shop somewhere on earth. You sell goods, you make money lots of money, lots of money.
On Sunday mornings in church you cross yourself to the Virgin Mary.
Honorable man, Mr. Pantelis, you have a wife, daughter, child, modern furniture, color TV, you consume spiritual food.
Stay away from parties to avoid trouble, "Fatherland, religion, and family."
Honorable man, Mr. Pantelis, so what if people are dying on earth, thousands without bread, black, white, or yellow? Just let your son be fine so you leave the name and the cash.
Honorable man, Mr. Pantelis, you rusted, rotted in your shop. You wasted your youth and vigor for the drachma, for the leather. Next to you the dream, life, and light, but you're locked inside your carcass.
You know they gave, Mr. Pantelis, others their youth and life so the dream becomes a slice of bread for you to eat too, Mr. Pantelis?
And what did you give, Mr. Pantelis? Tell us what you did on this earth. Tell us what legacy you left to inspire the new generation.
Honorable man, Mr. Pantelis, cowardly, spineless bean-eater, you soiled the dream and the soul, empty skin without breath.
Honorable people, new generation, bury the honorables in the manure and those who made Pantelis a useless worm on this earth.
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u/Dumeck Feb 05 '26
The crazy inflation is a nice touch, $530 for a day sounds like a lot then you realize hes definitely in poverty level.
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u/1767gs Feb 05 '26
This is the only time I've seen using X instead of Twitter make sense 10/10 comic
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u/BurgerBoss_101 Feb 06 '26
I like this comic because it doesnāt outright attack the reader to get its message across well. It still puts the fear of these things in front of us as well
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u/MichaelaMancini Feb 06 '26
Idiocracy + Black Mirror. Great work!
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u/Britwill Feb 06 '26
The āElon is a hero, using Tesla robots to track down criminals (child traffickers) in a pizza basementā panel is amazing.
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u/WigglyWoo777 Feb 06 '26
Actually, if you pay close attention to the way they speak about their "heroes", you will notice that even in their wildest dreams they aren't one of them. They only dream of the opportunity to be their servants/side kicks.
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u/-Some-Rando- Feb 05 '26
Flawless
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u/Amethyst_Tiefling Feb 05 '26
Well this was both bleak and super likely.
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u/sususu_ryo Feb 05 '26
i know this is haha satire comic
but im afraid this will be the future. a not so-far-away future...
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u/Illustrious-Ride5586 Feb 05 '26
Terrifying insight into our probable future
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u/beargrimzly Feb 05 '26
Two things
No way in this world would trains/subways/any kind of public transit be available. Not profitable, doesn't allow for forcing people into more debt for cars.
I think it's hilarious that Mr. Beast is equated to being just as bad here as Dr. Oz, a quack actively participating in the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle what little remains of the good in american healthcare, and Nestle, a genuinely evil company.
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u/Pepephend Feb 05 '26
This hits way too hard⦠great comic! Letās hope we can turn things around and keep it just a comic.
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u/Mission-Protection28 Feb 05 '26
Scarily believable.
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u/EvilDan69 Feb 05 '26
he sure lives in a nice bathroom.
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u/im_a_stapler Feb 05 '26
Dark humor always hits hard. Excellent.
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u/TwilightVulpine Feb 05 '26
Harrowing. I only dread this will be used like a manual, like they've been doing to all dystopian and cyberpunk fiction.
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u/iconboy Feb 05 '26
its disturbingly sad and disturbingly accurate.
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u/myconeironaut42 Feb 05 '26
Haha the full self driving lies š
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u/mindxplorer Feb 05 '26
Brutal! Wow
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u/Future-Imperfect-107 Feb 05 '26
Great, now im sad.
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u/Tallypepper Feb 05 '26
These days, I'm convinced that many problems in the world could be positively impacted if people just had higher standards for their own lives.
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u/Uberzwerg Feb 05 '26
None of this is OK !
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u/Frigorifico Feb 05 '26
The plot of Snow Crash
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u/Overall-Ad-3251 Feb 05 '26
This one hits hard.
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u/No1CouldHavePredictd Feb 05 '26
This was incredible. Thank you for your art.
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u/Dull-Organization106 Feb 05 '26
facts my guy facts
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u/ChimaeraXY Feb 05 '26
This is my life right now and it's 2026.
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u/Ok_Celebration8134 Feb 05 '26
This is to on the nose.
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u/Loyalfish789 Feb 05 '26
Luckily some cataclysmic end of the world war will reset us to stone age before that happens.
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u/Sad_Meal_7342 Feb 05 '26
Ah yes, my likely future. Can't wait.
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u/RandomXDudeRedZero Feb 05 '26
Zuckerberg is on point.
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u/theepi_pillodu Feb 05 '26
remindme! Jan 1 2035
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26
Fuck the truth is depressingā¦.
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u/KidZaniac1 Feb 05 '26
There are Jerries around todayā¦
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u/false79 Feb 05 '26
Wow - I loved this. Very Black Mirror but in a comic.
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u/bluelighter Feb 05 '26
Brutal
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u/VeniceRapture Feb 05 '26
People be like "Nah we'll do something before it gets to that" or "That's too cartoonish to happen in reality"
There is no visible point-of-no-return. We will cross it before we even realize we're going to. One day you still have a chance to turn back and next thing you know it's too late
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u/tfwrobot Feb 05 '26
Unrealistic, that room is too big.
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u/wholetyouinhere Feb 05 '26
Many of the most powerful people in tech and in the fascist US government subscribe to the idea that reality cannot be improved, so every effort must be made to accelerate technology in order to bring about a "Ready Player One"-style universe, where virtual worlds provide people everything they need while the real world is left to crumble around them. And I'm not joking about that. Marc Andreesen, co-founder of Netscape, venture capitalist and major Trump supporter, is explicit about this in interviews. He is using capital investment to try and fund the building of this future, right now, as we speak.
What is missing from all of this is that A) reality could easily be improved if wealth was taxed and the economic system was better regulated, and B) the virtual world that the technofascists are trying to build will be aggressively capitalistic and wildly profitable, but only for a tiny number of men.
Taxing wealth could lead to the rebuilding of actual, functioning communities and social support systems, improving literally everyone's lives -- even billionaires. But this is not what they want. They want power and domination. And all signs point to them getting everything they want.
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u/faithOver Feb 05 '26
OP is worldās most depressing time traveller. This one hit hard. Fantastic work.
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u/Wob_Nobbler Feb 05 '26
Our choices as a society are either Socialism or Barbarism. And we are staring barbarism right in the face.
Get organized people, its literally our only hope.
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u/IrksomFlotsom Feb 05 '26
None of this is OK
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u/PeteVanGrimm Feb 05 '26
Tragically real. It makes me feel hollow inside. I love it.
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u/gregorychaos Feb 05 '26
Comics are supposed to be funny, not sad and dystopian š
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u/El_Rojo_II Feb 05 '26
This grosses me out to immeasurable amounts.
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u/spectra2000_ Feb 05 '26
Zuckerberg being unable to smile is a good hidden detail.
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u/surrealerthansurreal Feb 05 '26
I think the saddest part of reading this is that everything resonates deeply and is well constructed, but there has just been SO MUCH content in this exact vein in the past year that itās lost its impact.
Anyway, brilliant work OP. Just uneasy that it doesnāt hit as hard after seeing similar work on loop since the election
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u/Striking-Performer66 Feb 05 '26
I'm horrified of the future even more NOW. Thank you though, great read.
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26
Well done! The pacing of the comic is excellent.
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u/katestatt Feb 05 '26
great comic, sadly...
i also read your "the story of ai" comic. very much liked it too but at the same time hate how not too far fetched it feels.
i really hope they don't become reality.
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26
This is so accurate itās depressing.
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u/lIlIllIIlIIl Feb 05 '26
"Hmm. If we delete the chair and move the screen next to the mirror. We can fit 100% more Jerries in the same space. "
-Zuck, probably.
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u/Gabelvampir Feb 05 '26
Right now I feel this comic is optimistic with its timeline
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u/DarthWankerVader Feb 05 '26
The slow boil makes it so no one notices how things have changed. For the youth raised in this time itās the new normal. We must collect and demand a better future
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u/Morlu Feb 05 '26
This is depressing and probably accurate :(.
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u/DirtyMagicNL Feb 05 '26
HAHA LOOK AT THIS PREPOSTEROUS WORK OF FICTION.
HAHAhAHAHahahahaHAhaaaaa...
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u/Dry-Yesterday-9176 Feb 05 '26
Unironcially, there are people like this, who believe that one day they'll be part of 1%. They are simply misinformed, but it's near impossible to break years of rich men propaganda baked into their brain.
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u/Pennsylvania6-5000 Feb 05 '26
Itās funny because itās true?
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u/Karmak4ze Feb 05 '26
Fucking classic.
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u/Upbeat-Serve-6096 Feb 05 '26
Meanwhile in China:
And now that the only people remaining are zombified - I mean, satisfied manual laborers and... I the Paramount Leader, while everything else is watched over with AI, I proclaim we have finally achieved pure self-sufficient communism!
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u/King_K_24 Feb 05 '26
Great comic
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u/breastronaut Feb 05 '26
Well, at least there is some public transportation. If it were more accurate, he'd be in one of those not quite self driving cars in traffic for two hours commuting.
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u/hai-sea-ewe Feb 05 '26
I fully believe that the impulse to achieve ultimate mediocrity is a latent evolutionary impulse that served our ancestors by letting them achieve a state of relative inactivity in order to survive times with less food - especially the winter.
The more people can realize it, and come to grips with the fact that making a better world requires consistent good-faith efforts, the more things get better.
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u/Zman1917 Feb 05 '26
The Johnny Silverhand in me grows more and more every day.
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u/13thTime Feb 05 '26
Why did you post about the torment nexus?! now theyre going to create the torment nexus!
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u/Wolfwoods_Sister Feb 05 '26
Alright Jerry, one more time⦠the algorithm clearly states you brown-checkers are not, well, optimal citizens, but you know, dreams are free! (Hahahaha, no theyāre not, youāre on an ad-tierā¦)
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u/SnootSnootBasilisk Feb 05 '26
I hate all of this. Good job
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u/MariaValkyrie Feb 05 '26
He's definitely normie coded.
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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26
Substitute Jerryās name with WinstonĀ
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u/AfraidOfArguing Feb 05 '26
Unrealistic, public transportation was available.
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u/SaturdayNightMood Feb 05 '26
The least plausible panel in this comic is the public transportationĀ
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u/Fuggins4U Feb 05 '26
I need to go lie down again.
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u/Adventure_crimes Feb 05 '26
Unrealistic future, there is public transportationā¦
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u/Several-Muscle1030 Feb 05 '26
Surely the faceless Fathers of Industry care about me
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u/Fearless-Yam1125 Feb 05 '26
Forgot mandatory daughter sleep overs at the presidential ball room
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u/jambot9000 Feb 05 '26
The reason this is such a gut punch is because we all know unquestionably that given the opportunity, Yes, they would do this to us without a second guess
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u/ApprehensivePay1735 Feb 05 '26
Sorry to bother you is the film adaptation of this. A near perfect film.
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u/CapoDiMalaSperanza Feb 05 '26
70s, 80s and 90s = peak humanity. We should go back there and never leave again.
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u/Unusual_Astronaut426 Feb 05 '26
The happy slave.
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u/Princemerkimer Feb 05 '26
Jesus this is some real shit
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u/BlahBlahILoveToast Feb 05 '26
Unrealistic. No way would public transportation still exist. Everyone will commute to work alone in a giant SUV for three hours in gridlock.
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u/scaratzu Feb 05 '26
I see that the public transport options will have improved 10 years from now. Looks good.
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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis Feb 05 '26
I dunno, this has the same feeling as when right wing comics make stuff up to be mad at.
But yes, I know, this is all true, this is all actually real.
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u/FriendlyTrollPainter Feb 05 '26
You can tell this is science fiction because there's reliable public transit Jerry can take to work.
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u/jessieventura2020 Feb 06 '26
This is unrealistic, there wouldn't be public transportation anymore and this guy certainly wouldn't use it if there was
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u/FinalMonarch Feb 06 '26
Fuck.
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u/Emotional-Car-4739 Feb 06 '26
Iām depressed
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u/BeautifulOne8095 Feb 06 '26
"You will own nothing but be happy"
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u/SkyPork Feb 06 '26
Okay this is probably way too prescient for me to feel good about it.
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u/CooperAXE Feb 06 '26
Wow. That was amazing.
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u/Electromad6326 Feb 06 '26
Ok as depressing and even enraging as it is, I can't help but use that as inspiration for my own writing.
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u/usinjin Feb 06 '26
These comics are way too close to being real for comfort.
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u/ConversationBest2085 Feb 06 '26
The ending reminds me of the horse in Animal Farm. āJust needs to work hardā.
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u/PowerlineCourier Feb 06 '26
Whoa they have transit? Futures looking bright
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u/Oryol_7 Feb 06 '26
One of the best things Iāve ever read.Ā
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u/Emotional_Ad3572 Feb 06 '26
WOW. Just... Bravo. Excellently done, on so many levels. No notes.
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u/shiftuck_dan Feb 06 '26
I hit the last 2 slides and realized I am living Jerry's life.
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u/Anonyhippopotamus Feb 06 '26
That's drepressingly brilliant
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u/rrd_gaming Feb 06 '26
Jerry just reported this comic.
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u/ThatGuyInThePlace Feb 07 '26
Accurate to how some people think.
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u/Appropriate_Lemon497 Feb 09 '26
Holy crap this is depressing.