Dystopian 2030 meme: queuing at 4am for weekly token rations to cure your daughter
CtrlAltDwayne · x · 2026-09-16
A viral dystopian joke imagines 2030: you queue at 4am for your family's weekly token allocation; your sick daughter needs 30k tokens but you're rationed 12k, and a stranger whispers he knows someone with tokens — a dark satire of future compute/token scarcity.
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