Articles tagged with "Escapism" (4 articles)
'Your company's funds are all gone, such a good boy...' ── A surge of AI apps in Silicon Valley are reading out disastrous financial statements in motherly whisper voices. CEOs, overwhelmed by the pressure of responsibility, are regressing into childhood to escape reality, with many seen happily closing down their businesses the next morning with blissful smiles.
On the 25th, the government announced the approval and free provision of 'Nirvana Shot,' a gene therapy vaccine targeting only the 'fear center for the future' in the brain, as an alternative to the effectively bankrupt pension system. In clinical trials, many test subjects were moved to tears upon seeing a bank passbook with a zero balance, feeling 'infinite possibilities (space).' The procedure sacrifices logical thinking ability to achieve mental stability, drawing fierce opposition from the intellectual class — yet the reservation website was flooded with access from the 'ice age generation,' causing the server to physically melt within 3 seconds of launch.
AR glasses that transform a furious boss into a kitten. Since longer lectures meant more healing, employees began making mistakes on purpose, blissfully enduring endless scoldings. Yesterday the government declared the feature illegal for "severely undermining national productivity." The bosses, who were smiled at for no apparent reason, have already reached their mental breaking point.
A new CEO seconded from another dimension to a major automaker has announced a new truck that guarantees Isekai (another world) reincarnation just by riding and crashing it. The Compliance Department strongly opposed the specification where a magic circle deploys instead of an airbag upon collision, stating it 'completely ignores physical safety standards.' Meanwhile, pre-orders from exhausted corporate workers flooded in, but rumors spread that the occupational requirements for reincarnation include 'Excel macro creation skills mandatory,' causing the customer service center to burst into flames.