Or "you went to college? You're overqualified for flipping burgers"

2021 seems off too since it's in the middle of COVID. I can't think of a better quote though.

It was all about forcing someone else to do it, to the point of enslaving citizens in a for profit prison that doubles as a forced job center. Whether is micky D's or the plantation that sources the produce they all force prisoners into labor camps. America has really aced concentration camps and applying it to everyone who is poor (not the elite billionaires)

Ditto, definitely had relatives literally saying the 2008 point for me after graduation.

The rich won't suffocate in their climate-controlled mansions

I misread that as "clutching their penises". I was like, "Alright, don't make me like them right as they're dying."

Buying some woodland in the Scottish highlands live alone under the trees? Also banned.

Seems relatively easy? You don't even need a full ass robot, just a robot arm with sensors. No one gives a shit about fast food quality anyway.

Heck, this happened before the AI boom

There already are robots for flipping burgers. If you prepare the burgers for them and place them on GBE grill and then assemble the burger.

2029-30 How many burger flipping robots do you want...

I'm much the same.

I can't leave my geographic area for very good reasons, and I will in IT support. I'm experienced enough to be a "senior" support tech. But the average going rate in my area for my job is about 60k/yr. That sounds great until I tell you that I'm in Canada and that's Canadian dollars, which is about 43k/yr USD.

The state of the market here is embarrassing and I can't find jobs hiring for remote workers, or anything local enough that I could feasibly commute, that pays enough for it to be worth it to even apply.

If I do find a posting that's close it's a 1.5hr commute away and pays about the same as my current work from home gig.... Despite the toxicity, why would I take a job I need to spend an additional 3+ hours in a car to do the same work, with potentially the same toxicity, for the same pay?

I fucking hate everything.

The last image is likely referring to this. Contracting prisoners out to private companies is a common practice all across the US, but particularly in Alabama and other former chattel slave economies. Southern slave plantations continued operating during reconstruction by using prison labor. The reason we have the largest per capita prison population in the world is because slavery never truly ended, it just adapted.

Bonus, you join army, army breaks you, tries to sweep it away but eventually your children get survivor benefits.

and fun fact, Some veterans can get free mental asylum and cremation. (My mom tells us when she's over the hill, hand her to the va, they'll stick her in a ward till she dies and then cremate her so we don't have to worry) (My dads running plan is to work till he dies at his desk, then the army will bury him for free too)

If you wanted to eat, why didn't you just sign up to murder brown kids. Service guarantees citizenship.