>stable employment with regular hours at an air conditioned office>sufficiently compensated to afford an apartment at a city metro as a single young man>this was considered soul crushingly dystopian in 1999.
Why didn't he just pull an Office Space instead of doing all this Superman Jesus bullshit?
>>219956029his fake boss was actually paying attention
The film was released the same year as Office Space, Fight Club and American Beauty. Even people living in the peak year of American history still threw a shitfit about how boring things have gotten. Today people would kill just to get a fraction of the prosperity we had back then
>>219956092those movies were each about just 1 unhappy office wagie. 1 guy doesn't speak for the millions of office workers during the two decades between 1980 and 2000. you can't draw a conclusion that most of the other office wagies in the real world were unhappy. what if many of them were fine with it, had hobbies outside of work, built up savings and invested in stocks so they'd be financially free by the early 2000s, just in time to buy one or two houses to flip for a profit before the housing bubble?these repetitive threads are all so tiresome.
>>219955798He couldn't afford it though which is why he was selling illegal programs to criminals
>>219955798If it's so great then why is everything tinted green?
>>219955798>>sufficiently compensated to afford an apartment at a city metro as a single young manbruh
>>219957808That's a great size for a kitchen island, just need a clean is all.
>>219957515the wachowski had a parakeet called trostky that dieded before the movie was released, its color was green so they tinted the movie green as a sort of homage
>>219958539>called trostkywhy
>>219955798If the work week were just Monday to Thursday the vast majority of people wouldn't mind work very much. Hell, even if it were 10 hour days.
The 90's were as far away from the 60's as the 90's are to today. So there was still a tangible cultural memory that you were working in a cubicle at a soulless globohomo corporation while your father / grandfather made a living running a surf shop out of his garage on prime California beachside real estate he bought for two dollars.
>>219955798His boss is the kind of idiot IT guys hate.
>>219955798because humans lived 100k years as hunter and gatherers but that name doesnt do it justice. Because the roughly only did that 20hours a week and spend the rest of their time vibing and telling stories at the camp fire.Nothing short of a meteroid whiping out our civilication would be able to put us back in that utopia. Being a slightly better of wage slave isnt the peak of humanity you think it is.antibiotics and soap are nice invention i guess, but thats about it.
>>219956202Considering theyre all taking wagie cope drugs like anti depressants/anxiety, id say theyve always been miserable
>>219955798
Gen Z is the conformist generation
As someone who was born in 81 and saw this movie when it came out I can indeed verify that the 90s was the peak of human experience for the modern generation and if you had any idea of how shitty it is today compared to then then consider yourself lucky you will never have seen things fall apart as badly as my generation has Generational prosperity gone in the blink of an eye and all you had to do was vote for civil rights. You made them equal to humans, gave them access to human things, and worst of all, gave them them this bizarre assertion that they are owed everythingShame on you
>>219955798The office environment felt radically different back then with no smartphones or meaningful internet You were completely locked into just clicking in slow programs in a very manual way for 8 hours
>>219955798 >No SCRUM>No story points>No daily standups>No kanban>No tickets>No project manager>No open office>No gender sensitivity training>No racial sensitivity training>No Gay Pride month>No weekly Why Trump sucks sharing activitywhat a bunch of funking wankers. you fucking gen x'ers and millenials don't know how good you had it.Although, I'm kinda enjoying The Weekly Why Trump sucks session, its kinda the high point of our meetings now.
>>219955798>sufficiently compensated to afford an apartment at a city metro as a single young manhe was literally selling hacks on the side
>>219959139>Generational prosperity gone in the blink of an eyewhat the fuck are you talking about. most people make 6 figures now and tech workers make a quarter million a year working remotely. this is the richest period in american history
>at an air conditioned officestop including this point and you'll stop outing yourself as brown, thus, trash, desperate for an upgrade in status, from trash to cattle.
>>219959266Yeah what the fuck was he even selling to that weird ginger rave club dude? Cracked copies of System Shock 2?
I moved to a department with mostly women and they're really nice and friendly and invite me out to lunch all the time and gchat me good morning and good night I hate it so much I miss my silent male co-workers.
>>219959809Except that six figures doesn't have anywhere near the buying power and homes are well into the mid-high six figures rather than still five figures. There's a reason this drives them to have two incomes and no kids since it's more common not to be able to support one staying home and multiple kids
>>219959952I always assumed it was shit like the ability to wipe yourself from legal databases or something to extract money, maybe. Network pen tools possibly. Pure guesswork but based on how much money was changing hands it can’t have been for anything minor.But apparently the original script drafts suggested it was software to get out of paying parking fines, kek.
>>219959952It was just a few jpgs and a couple videos its not a big deal don't worry about it.
>>219955798He even had freaky friends to go out clubbing with despite being a nerd
>zoomers thinking the 90's were an optimistic timeAll my favorite musicians either killed themselves or od'd on heroinWas the greatest era in hindsight
>>219955798you don't understand, man! his boss summoned him into his office for a talk! it's no different than chattel slavery.
>Anons establishing their understanding of the past via pop culture moviesRetards
>>219960317>software to get out of paying parking finesIn downtown Chicago that could be worth a small fortune
the biweekly (figure out if I mean twice a week or every two weeks) gen X seethe thread
>>219958738mentally ill retards are drawn to communism
>>219959952The Tonya Harding honeymoon video off Limewire
>>219961202one thing i'll never forget growing up as a millennial was the guy who worked at the drive-thru convenience store who sold us cigarettes lived alone in a two family house.
You still don’t think that you’re a slave?
zoomers insisting they'd be rich if they were born 10 years earlier, episode 139480348435
>>219959809Absolutely zero chance a white person typed that.
Still is.
>>219962493it's a (((white))) person
>>219956240>>219959266He was doing that for the thrill. His normal job was a metaphor for accepting the programming of the matrix. Neo wasn't accepting it. He was compelled to break the rules. To escape the limitations imposed by normal society, be true to himself, and become a woman.
>>219958964I would change antibiotics to every invention that cures or prevents pain disease and illness as a whole. Great stuff that
>>219958828this, I work 9 hours a day monday to friday, plus 4 hours on saturday morning. If I could choose to work 12 hours a day monday to thursday instead I'd take it in a heartbeat, imagine having 3 full days to do whatever you want every week...
>>219959139That has more to do with the runaway power of a rich tech elite and neoliberal policies than it does black people being allowed to use the same water fountain as whites
>>219957515He's in inverse Mexico
>>219959032How do people live without antidepressants? The world gets worse everyday. If I wasn't medicated, I'd be an alcoholic.
>>219959895>only brown people have worked manual labour jobs outdoors in the summer at a latitude south of Helsinki Whatever you say man.
>>219970435It's not perfect but it helps having the right habits and the right people in your life.
>>219955798sounds like hell to me
>>219957808>one bedroom hole in SydneyThis would be worth 500k easily
>>219955798and then he realizes all of those are just a dream
>>219961260The idea that there's some missing generational link between boomers and millenniums like some kind of fucking cryptids it's preposterous.
>>219955798Yes it was. Because nobody wanted their soul drained for 8-10 hours per day, then go home with no energy left to do anything. And now things are worse than that.
>>219955798You're either brown, or worse, american, if you think any of that is some kind of utopia.
the irony is that if the economy suddenly turned around and in 10 years this was the current situation, all you fags on this website would still be here bitching about how life sucks and office's are worse then death
The Matrix actually made me want to be an office wagie when I saw it as a little kid. Having your own little cubicle seemed comfy
>>219970435I'm currently thinking of ending things before even wanting to try an antidepressant, how do I stop being this retarded
>>219971897Things are bad for reasons unrelated to the economy, so yeah.
>>219958964I daydream about doing some bene gesserit shit to isolated amazon tribes and sentelese where you leave them alone except for imparting on them the idea what modern medicines do and how to use them and what for, likely through some religious introduction, then just letting them live like the stone age-tier they are, but having access to airdropped modern medicine, creating the highest level of human experience.
>>219955798gen x had everything in the world and all they did was fucking cry about itfucking assholes
>>219955798Past a certain age a man without a family can be a bad thing.
>>219955798>satisfied living a lieI know which character you would be in this movie, cattle.
>>219955798>stable, comfy office job>cool apartment>mountains of electronics to practice his hobbies>access to designer drugs>friends are happy to see him and invite him to go clubbing>"what if...there was more? damn....">>219957515I watched the non green version a while back on tubi or something. Don't think I'd ever seen it.
>>219959809>most people make 6 figures now and tech workers make a quarter million a year working remotely. Lmao. Your information is wildly out of date. Technology sector (besides AI) is in the the dumps. Tens of thousands of people are getting laid off from tech companies. The few remaining people at these companies are holding on for dear life. Indians now have to pay a 100k fee to get an h1b visa. So most are trying to apply to work in other countries like Canada. The remaining Indians on h1b visas are desperately hoping their company doesn't lay them off so they can stay in the USA.The tech boom from the late 2010s is over.
>>219959983>gchat me good morning and good night I hate it so much I miss my silent male co-workers.Why did you give out your phone number to them? Why do you leave your gchat messenger turned on? Turn it off. Dont respond to every message. Don't be so available and open.
>>2199578083500 dollars a month in NYC
>>219972545ADP released a salary study last year that showed software developers average about $86k per year. FAGMAN and colleges have colluded the past couple of decades to present an image of CS grads becoming wealthy from a couple of years of light work but it turns out that was a very small fraction of developers. Most end up working at a company like Kroger, doing shit work updating the internal server tracking system or fucking up the website because some middle manager wanted to make a name for herself by overhauling things that already work. Corporate IT jobs are mostly in non-tech companies doing internal shit or redoing the same old stuff for the hundredth time. All for a meh salary. The thing about ADP is that they're the ones who process the paychecks for a large percentage of employers, so they have access to actual pay information instead of the propaganda that colleges and SV companies put out.
>>219955798Did programmers of that era really have to wear a suit and tie to the office each day? Seems like a stupid requirement for mashing keys in a cubicle.
>>219955798>>219972436Doesn't this just prove that though one is better materially it's still shit and we should just go join a cult or something since we'd be unhappy in their situation after a few years when once again the new normal sets in and we're unhappy about it once more?
>>219958829>b-b-but it was bad because you could be bullied violently for a measly 3 year of your 80+ years existence and your parents maybe slapped you occasionallyyeah no I got nothing, my dad talking about how fucking good it was every time we meet with zero self awareness no matter how many times you bring it up doesn't help either
>>219972181>I daydream about doing some bene gesserit shit to isolated amazon tribes and senteleseAnon, they aren't "uncontacted tribes" in th sense that they don't know the outside world exists, they all do. The North Sentinelese had wars with neighbouring islands as recently as some centuries ago and had regular visits from Europeans for a thousand years, they know the outside world and technology exist, they just want to be left alone.
>>219973028you don't think they're sufficiently isolated in order to be comparable to people from 10k years in alll the important ways when it comes to living with purpose, community and all that and while knowing ppl on the outside with tech exist, you don't think they'd be abe to be fooled by giant projections of gods and shit speaking their language and telling them to accept the medicine?
>>219972853Yeah, working people were actually expected to look presentable in public and give a good impression of their company. They'd get a yelling guaranteed for going to work looking like they just got off the bed. Pretty wild. Nowadays, people have a mental breakdown if they're asked to show up at all
>>219973095There's a lot of space between "just got out of bed" and wearing a suit.
>>219956029>Office Space MatrixHow would that look like?Neo would do increasingly absurd pranks around the office until the Matrix glitched out?Then he bows out and leaves.
>>219959139I'm born in 2004 and basically everyone my age takes it as a given that the 90s was the peak. It's not like with 80s nostalgia or other generic "I wish i was born in x time period" larping, it's just the truth. It's frustrating enough knowing it, but I imagine it must be excruciating to have personally witnessed the decline. That said I remain full of hope and optimism based on principle
>>219955798It's clear you haven't worked in such an office an environment. You are fantasizing. I have worked in an office.The issue isn't the pay. It's ... 1. Sitting down all day.2. Lack or exercise or movement. 3. Repetitive work. 4. Being crammed in a loud office with other people. 5. Newsflash! Cubicle aren't used at most companies anymore. It's all "open office" now. Just a long table with seats. So you to can't even get minor privacy. Everyone can see what you are doing on your screen. Everywhere you turn your head you make eye contact with someone. 6. Most IMPORTANT - office politics.Since there's limited promotion opportunities, there lots of politics and factions within the companies. Some departments hate each other. Some people kiss a the ass of managers. Some people sabotage others. Lots of petty nonsense. 7. Rude ass employees, customers, or coworkers.8. Managers with a horrible attitude or don't know what they are doing.9. Dealing with nepotism or cronyism. Like the one female office assistant who clearly slept her way to her position but is unqualified.10. Sometimes long commute. It's not just showing up to the office. Its the 1 hour commute or bus ride to get there. And the 1 hour commute or bus ride to go home. Plus the time it takes to get up and get ready each morning. You essentially lose 3 hours each day on getting ready and committing. Your fantasy of "just show up, do your job, collect pay, and go home" doesn't exist. You are always .dealing some of the points listed above .
>>219955798No.
