u/Neat-Turnip7927

The Simulated Adulthood Theory holds that the late-20th-century economy was a localized, heavily funded simulation run by a collapsing civilization to see how stable a society could look. They gave our parents $15,000 houses, single-income families, and predictable 9-to-5s just to collect baseline data. Then, around the turn of the century, the simulation ran out of funding. We didn't inherit a broken economy—we got dropped into the cold, harsh, unrendered reality grid where rent is $2,500, and the physics engine is completely broken