Straight Out Da Trailer Park

I grew up in a single-wide until the age of 8 or 9. After that, we upgraded to a double-wide. That was a big deal for us. My parents could barely afford it but a single-wide with two kids was untenable.

Then my dad lost his job and then they really couldn’t afford it, though it didn’t get repossessed (car did, though).

I’ve never really watched Roseanne, but it’s one of the few to show working-class people that I am aware of.

Libroration

I think Ada Palmer and Sue Burke might be two of the few human beings alive who understand the possible non-extinction futures humanity is likely heading towards.

Read the Terra Ignota series by Palmer and the Semiosis duology by Burke if you have not to get a glimpse of these likely futures.

Dyppy

It’s a Stephensonian dystopia, because the progressives want us to live in pods while working horrifically inhuman gigs to “save the earth,” ร  la Snow Crash. Though I don’t particularly care for that novel (it’s trying way too hard), that’s our dystopia and it’s getting worse.

Nerfed

Good analogy. Boomers (especially white ones) played with the difficulty set on “Super Easy” and now are tetchy that others get upset that newer generations are forced to play on “Ultra Hard” mode. They don’t realize, despite being told a million times, that the difficulty level has changed at all. “Just beat the street, show up and demand a job” is their advice. Ok, boomer, good way to get arrested for harassment and trespassing.