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The Permanent Upper Crow

https://permanent-upper-crow.jasonwu.ink/
40•whiteblossom•2h ago

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aselimov3•1h ago
This is quality
Yumat•1h ago
It never ends…

Super cool concept

saaaaaam•58m ago
Well done! Fun and satirical
dheera•56m ago
Yep, this is basically the world today. The only difference in the real world:

"What if I told you you can buy that $10 hat today using borrowed money that you don't have, pay $1/year interest for the rest of your life until you pay it back, but you have to earn $2/year more in order to have $1/year more to pay, but to earn $2/year more, your company has to earn $3/year more"

"Oh and you also need to buy insurance for that $10 hat because it's not yours, and you have to pay us for the insurance we're going to buy in addition to the insurance you're going to buy to insure us from you, so that'll be another $1, or you have to make $2 more to have $1, or your company needs to make $3 more, so now your company needs to make $6/year more"

"Oh and we're also going to devalue the $ so you actually need to make $10/year more because a $ won't be worth that much in a couple years"

arjie•54m ago
Fascinating. I was able to escape the suffering by simply not purchasing a top hat. An interesting lesson that the pursuit of conspicuous consumption is the root of one’s own suffering.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

xattt•52m ago
Once I realized I couldn’t decline, I left the website and left the top hat on the table.
ricardobayes•22m ago
That's easier to do in a video game, but I guess the real life analogy would be to sell it all and move off-grid to Alaska?
the_af•49m ago
Your reply reminded me of the free game Oiligarchy by Molleindustria (which made quite a few indie hits in my opinion).

In that game, if you played "well" you ended up destroying the world. The only winning move was, indeed, not to play.

nprbst•51m ago
CAWn't believe how hard this hits
jc4883•42m ago
How does it come up with the CEO and business' name? I assume there's gotta be finite number and the game has to end (?) Anyways, sick game.
ricardobayes•23m ago
Brilliant
thegrim33•17m ago
What's interesting is the creator of the site has listed on their linkedin that they're ... wait for it ... a co-founder at some generic AI startup with the goal of using AI agents to automate away manual jobs.
pocksuppet•12m ago
So he's obviously on the winning side of this transaction. Hopefully the losing side is someone who isn't you. Maybe it's a VC fund.
whiteblossom•12m ago
are we not all slaves to the top hat?
juancn•9m ago
So that's how you become a galactic civilization!

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