It’s actually impossible to pull yourself up by your entrails. The phrase was meant to be sarcastic, but eventually came to mean that anyone can become successful through hard work during the endtimes.
The “caw” demographic.
If you think about it, the publications that spout this nonsense are no better than the hot takes you find in memes. Except someone is paying for their shitty opinions.
How dare you. Jim Kramer is a living saint, and is onky doing what he does out of pure Jeebus-like altrooisms.
Warhammer 40K Space Marine does this with “even though we are invaded by both Orks AND Chaos, doesn’t give you an excuse to stay home. Get back to work.”
Imagine corporations building dreadnoughts to keep workers working even after death.
If that were possible, it would absolutely be reality.
Imagine having to wake Brother Jonathan, the Sr. Sysadmin who has been slumbering for 100 years, because the ancient VBA script powering the data collection for the accounting department broke down.
I mean, that would be quite something, wouldn’t it. :D
At this point I respect Ghostbusters for being completely realistic, in that they have proven the existence of Supernatural and life after death, and yet we have more scenes discussing merchandising and salary then we do any philosophy or what this means for science or religion.
Because in this world that’s exactly what would happen, companies would just jump right to figuring out how to make a buck off of it.
Isn’t that a big part of the premise of Don’t Look Up?
No that was more being in denial of the problem than anything else
Well after his success with the fire thing, Prometheus just became a total slacker with the bird eating insides bit, and that’s largely the only legacy he had left.
You wouldn’t want to be known around the office as a regular Prometheus, would you?
So make sure to come in an extra 15 minutes early to get in front of your workday, and if the birds are taking too long ingesting your intestines, be sure to call ahead.
“Ya’ll peasants are fuckin’ with my stonks.”
