You woke up to the news that the company running your gut microbiota had been acquired by a private equity consortium with plans to close the company and sell its data and IP. Panic rising faster than your wakefulness, you rushed to get a replacement subscription, but all the other companies had jacked up prices within minutes of the announcement. You knew they would go down later, but you needed a way to digest the drought-resistant wheat cakes that were the only reasonably priced food in your job's company-run vending machines. Cleaning up manufacturing robots had to be done in seconds, least the company lose precious line uptime and you your job, and that wasn't possible with stomach cramps. So you took the third loan of the month and bought your maintenance bacterial pill, to be picked up at the usual place, and ignored with the ease of practice the spike in your stomach ache that had nothing to do with your digestive system, and everything to do with the weekly unspoken question of whether you'd manage to stay above the event horizon of poverty.
Blue Collar
Blue Collar
Blue Collar
You woke up to the news that the company running your gut microbiota had been acquired by a private equity consortium with plans to close the company and sell its data and IP. Panic rising faster than your wakefulness, you rushed to get a replacement subscription, but all the other companies had jacked up prices within minutes of the announcement. You knew they would go down later, but you needed a way to digest the drought-resistant wheat cakes that were the only reasonably priced food in your job's company-run vending machines. Cleaning up manufacturing robots had to be done in seconds, least the company lose precious line uptime and you your job, and that wasn't possible with stomach cramps. So you took the third loan of the month and bought your maintenance bacterial pill, to be picked up at the usual place, and ignored with the ease of practice the spike in your stomach ache that had nothing to do with your digestive system, and everything to do with the weekly unspoken question of whether you'd manage to stay above the event horizon of poverty.