This meme is designed to make you feel angry about your loss of purchasing power as a small saver, and it does this by decontextualising the act of spending money from the act of earning it. We’d all be getting so much more stuff from… well… all those people who are making that stuff. Imagine if all our salaries just kept multiplying in power in this amount of time. How did that happen? Where did all that extra stuff come from? Isn’t it amazing that a week’s labour in 2012 earns you the right to command many months worth of labour from other people in 2014? I mean, somebody made that stuff in the trolley right? Two years later, however, their wage hasn’t changed, but the store will now sell them an overloaded trolley for exactly the same price. In this story, someone in 2012 apparently earns something called 1BTC, but then finds that the store will only give them a small amount of stuff for that. Oh sweet lord, I can get the gramaphone for just TWO DAYS OF WORK! You run into the shop looking like this… One day, you’re passing an antiques dealer, and you see your beloved gramaphone! Miraculously, it still costs $150, although it does look a little more beaten up than it used to. Wow! That’s more than three times what you used to get paid in a week. The shelter organises for you to get some part-time work as a removals worker. Even the janitor in your shelter has one of those magic gadgets with a screen. You also begin to notice that they have a lot more stuff than you had in 1920. For example, it dawns on you that other people seem happy to buy the burgers from that van because they seem to get paid much higher weekly wages than you used to, so in relative terms the burger seems less expensive to them than it does to you. You begin to learn things about this strange world. This becomes your temporary home while you try adjust to your new society. In the world you just came from, you laboured for an ENTIRE WEEK for that $20, but in this new world you’re now supposed to hand it over to someone who spends no more than 10 minutes frying up a burger?!Ī few hours later some cops find you wondering the streets in a daze, and they take you to a hostel for the homeless. You cautiously approach it, but scream again: to your dismay you see that a single gourmet burger COSTS $20! You smell a delicious aroma wafting from a hipster food van selling burgers outside the mall. You slowly calm down, and discover you’re absolutely famished - the time-travel really depleted your energy. You scream and run to hide in the shadows under an enormous billboard of someone called Rihanna. You’re in a frightening landscape of steel, glass and concrete. Impossibly advanced automobiles race down a highway to your side. They hold rectangular gadgets with shining lights that they tap with their fingers. Some stoned teenagers are staring at you whilst playing strange music out of boxes. One viral meme over the weekend joked that Musk will bring his love of the deer meme to Tesla’s next generation of cars.You raise yourself to your knees and find yourself in a parking lot. Musk’s meme appearances are already proving a hit. Jokes that started out on social media, for instance, have reared their heads as Tesla easter eggs and Spaceballs-inspired The Boring Company products. It’s unclear what Musk plans to use his new meme website for, but his previous social media postings have led to real product ideas. After a long social media campaign from Joe Rogan fans, Musk last year appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast with nearly five million YouTube subscribers, to discuss cybernetic A.I. In October 2017, he first met Roiland after using his social media to express adoration for Rick and Morty. Musk is a big fan of internet culture, using his Twitter page to communicate with his 24 million followers about his thoughts on the future of humanity, artificial intelligence, and flamethrower ideas. In classic Musk fashion, the episode ended with a meme of a deer lying against the floor of a swimming pool with the caption “why is my dolphin not working”: Musk’s uproarious laughter, coupled with Stankmemes’ debut, suggests he is a fan of animal-themed memes. The series is a regular feature on Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s YouTube channel, and last week’s episode saw Musk and Roiland reviewing memes around Bernie Sanders, Madagascar and Post Malone to PewDiePie’s 86 million YouTube subscribers. Beyond Stankmemes, Musk appeared on Meme Review with Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. See more: Musk Reads: Elon Musk’s Electric Plane Idea Gets Liftoff
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