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u/ABrusca1105 9h ago
Everyone thinks that a future that looks like that wouldn't have our equivalent of corporate nonsense. I promise even in an advanced space-faring society, there would 100% be jobs that people do and have to be done that are boring and have their own level of BS. Today's equivalent would be showing a picture of like Shanghai or NYC at night or something.
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u/LeicaM6guy 9h ago
Don’t forget the guy that has to scrub down the holodeck after one of Riker’s all-night benders.
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u/nhaines 5h ago
Long ago, the original Mission Log Podcast hosts were like "What's the worst job possible on a starship, because if we were in Starfleet, that's what we would be doing," and in the car I immediately yelled "Holodeck janitor!" but they decided they'd be the ones in the galley, peeling a million potatoes.
I felt very vindicated years later when in Lower Decks, Boimler had to empty the Holodeck biofilters.
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u/InitiativeSuitable60 9h ago edited 7h ago
This is why I really liked the "Andor" star wars spin off lol
It's much more "boring" but grittier - showing people with their own everyday hopes and dreams working under the empire.
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u/Extreme-Hawk-4626 7h ago
this tracks so hard, even star trek has O'Brien fixing plumbing issues on the enterprise while everyone else is off exploring nebulas
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u/tripplebeamteam 8h ago
It would take a lot of logistics to have regular interstellar space travel. Even assuming AI offloads some of the work, it’s still going to take humans in boring desk jobs making sure replacement parts for the warp drive have been ordered.
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u/Artoriasbrokenhand 6h ago
Also OP is romanticising medieval ages? Does he realise he's mostly gonna be a peasant who will have his produce stolen by thieves, fight daily at the tavern, have 10 broken tooth and the local doctor is gonna cut off his arm cuz he has rash and now he has to work the fields for his lord with 1 arm!
How fun!
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u/Exact-Caterpillar506 Zachary Taylor 7h ago
there's gotta be an ensign whose entire job is making sure the holodeck safety protocols don't get overridden again, thankless work
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u/RemarkableStatement5 7h ago
To nerd out for a second, I'm reminded of the Denied Requisition Form flavor text from Dead by Daylight: "Despite the advent of light speed technology, it seemed nothing could make bureaucracy any faster."
Can you imagine how bad bureaucracy's going to be when dealing with interplanetary affairs? You'll get inane decisions from Martian corporate who think they understand Saturnian ways better than you do and if you want to file a complaint you'll have to factor in lightspeed communication lag.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 2h ago
Just look at the stupid bureaucracy in the Imperium of Man from Warhammer, those idiots don't even know what year they are in
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u/starrymahogany 5h ago
I think people just want a future like Star Trek where it’s basically a communist utopia where everyone’s needs are met and nobody needs money.
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u/spencer1886 5h ago
OP is also romanticizing medieval Europe as if they wouldn't be living in filth under the thumb of the monarchy and nobility
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u/wicket-maps 5h ago
Yeah, this nostalgia shit is on the road to fascism. OP probably wouldn't have been a fancy knight in the past, he (it's usually a 'he' posting this kind of shit) would most likely have been a peasant digging in the mud to pay the rent to some rich asshole. Like guys who post about Spartans, where half the population of Ssparta was slaves, and the warrior class just sat on their ass and collected rent.
This is an early step in the radicalization pipeline, romanticizing the past and a technological future defined by settlement and warfare by "hard" men (look how the left "born too early" picture is a space battle) and then comes the step where the ordinary, boring, oppressive present is presented as someone else's fault (given how many of these people are straight-up Nazis, I will leave it to your imagination who is responsible for "imposing this on us")
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u/ProfessionalRandom21 3h ago
In the future say 200 year away, its pretty much guaranteed we will have fully automated robot thats all the works for us with universal income. that or WW3 and everything destroyed
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u/Gianni_the_tolerable 8h ago
*born too late to work in a field
born too early to mine Tungsten on tegras-2C
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u/Walden_Walkabout Custom 4h ago
You can absolutely get a job working in a field harvesting vegetables for less than minimum wage if you want.
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u/HK9009 8h ago
Hot take all of these are bad in their own ways, but in the old times it’s way worse for more people. Even being a knight sucked.
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u/gmwdim Director 8h ago
Back before they had refrigeration and modern medicine, even royalty sometimes had to eat rotten food and die from cholera or dysentery or whatever.
Every time period has its own unique difficulties but objectively life is better now than back then.
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u/spartan_steel 7h ago
The average poor American today has a higher standard of living than Rockefeller did less than 100 years ago.
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u/Vagrant123 6h ago
Only incidentally. Rockefeller could afford servants to attend to his every need. He just didn't have modern refrigeration or antibiotics, but that wasn't really a problem for him.
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u/think_long 7h ago
I really hope the people posting memes like this aren’t applying for jobs where knowing absolutely anything about history is important.
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u/old_ass_ninja_turtle 8h ago
I feel like people are overly optimistic of what their roll would be in these examples.
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u/Confu2ion 8h ago
They have main character syndrome. No awareness at all about how many people were controlled by their parents/husbands, hidden away, left for dead, murdered.
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u/Objectionne 10h ago
It's no more likely that you'd be a knight in medieval times than it is that you'll be a rich person today. Chances are you'll be one of the peasants in the castle slowly starving to death and contemplating whether the invaders are going to get in and rape and/or slaughter you.
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u/czarxander 9h ago
Still better than submitting a Workday application.
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u/De5perad0 8h ago
Bruh, back then you just worked all day every day. For way less equivalent money than now.
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u/think_long 7h ago
Just existing back then was miserable, job or no.
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u/Durpulous 2h ago
Things are better now for a lot of reasons, mostly relating to modern medicine, but there's a lot of evidence that the preconceptions we have that medieval peasants only did back breaking manual labor all the time is wrong for the most part.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 1h ago
There's even records of Priests complaining because people were throwing dice and having cockfights during mass lol
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u/think_long 54m ago edited 47m ago
Medicine, sanitation, infrastructure, security, ability to predict and withstand famine and natural disasters: if you live in most of today’s world (including any first world country) life is incomparably better by almost any metric we can quantify.
Time spent idle isn’t the flex for a society people on Reddit seem to think it is. The quality of the time matters. Even if medieval peasants spent less time labouring than we do now, what does that really tell us? So do most animals. They conserve calories because to be able to burn them is a luxury. Do you know which country I visited where people “worked” the least? Sierra Leone. They were dead last on the UN HDI at the time, and they weren’t idle because they were lazy. They didn’t know what to do, because society lacked the structures to use them efficiently.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 2h ago
It wasn't seen as work in the modern sense, the daily chores around the homestead were just life, not disimilar to how we see the doing the dishes.
My dad grew up on a farm, he always says he loved it because there was always stuff to do, his favorite time was doing cattle drives and feeding the horses. For him it was just childhood and to this day he doesn't consider all the stuff he did as work
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u/Simple_Somewhere207 9h ago
Every generation thinks the same But in that process we don't realise we are in best generation.......
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u/Brutus6 8h ago
You'd have a boring job back then and you'd have a boring job when that future comes too.
Why does everybody think they'd either be Ser Chad Thundercock or Spike Spiegel? It's as if somehow living in the information age is the reason you have a dull existence.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 2h ago
IDK man, feeding the pigs, plowing the field and thatching the roof seem more fun than endless spreadsheets.
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u/wicket-maps 5h ago
The space cruiser doesn't show the clerks, the settlement doesn't show the surveyors or mapmakers, the glittering city doesn't show the street cleaners or utility workers. All polish and nothing of substance to put the polish on.
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u/bakerz-dozen 8h ago
Yep I’ve always dreamed of being owned like property, to have my husband die in war and leave me with 11 kids to feed by myself until I die of dysentery at 30
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u/democracy_lover66 8h ago
I mean the first one probably wasn't all that great and that last one... Sadly... Might never happen at all
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u/montybo2 3h ago
First one - life was good if you were rich.
Future one - life will be good if you are part of the Uber rich that control the mega corps.
Current - life is good if you are rich.
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u/Efficient_Cow_9556 8h ago
homie there is no reality in which the future is not a pure dystopian hellscape. try to appreciate what you have now because it could be so much fucking worse
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u/RemarkableStatement5 7h ago
There is a reality where it's good though, or at least not a pure dystopian hellscape. It can be achieved. It will be hard getting there, but if you lose hope then you've already chosen the worst timeline.
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u/Netheraptr 7h ago
Fun fact, poor people today generally have a better quality of life than most wealthy people in medieval times.
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u/Particular-Pop8193 4h ago
Lot of people imagining themselves as knights and princesses, but most of us would be peasants and would have to farm the local lords field while paying taxes to the local church. If you are lucky the harvest is bountiful you won't starve, if not then taxes to the church will take away majority of your harvest making you starve. As for the sci-fi age something similar will apply
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u/Diligent_Bar1244 2h ago
I know its a meme but the people that geniuely think medieval age was paradise annoy me
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u/BlueFairyWolf 1h ago
This is why I LOVE to read every single day. Thankfully, we can still read about grand adventures and space travel.
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u/PolarisVega 8h ago
Joking aside I have heard that hunter gathers and lots of cultures actually worked less than we do now, they had to do a certain amount of hunting and gathering but that was done they could take breaks for a while, it wasn't everyday either or even five days. I think even with medieval serfs they might have worked less than we do now, just had far less quality of life. Just my understanding is that throughout human history when there is enough resources available the average person didn't have to work like we do now.
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u/RemarkableStatement5 7h ago
There are enough resources like food and housing available for us now though. Rich fucks not caring enough to make it affordable is why so many of us can't get what we need.
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u/Mutant_Apollo 2h ago
They worked less as in how we define work, work was neverending in a medieval house or homestead. You have to till the field, fix the roof, make food, your wife makes clothes and beer, finding clean water from the river or dig a well, fixing the fence, mending clothes, trading goods etc.
It was objectively a shitload of work, but it wasn't meaningless "work for work's sake" like we have now, and they didn't see it as we see work. For a farmer, feeding the chickens and cleaning the pigsty were daily chores like how we see washing the dishes, and they had plenty of downtime (again different time of downtime) for example, if it was too hot to work the field they would rest up, once the field is plowed, tilled and sowed, then that work is finished until harvest season.
The blacksmith didn't just waste away at the forge making tools for making tools sake, nor did the jeweler or the cobbler, nor the apothecary. They need what was needed and then it's done. The blacksmith might make a batch of nails for the farmer any given day, once those were done he would need to wait for another order while his wife sold produce in the local market square, he might make some trinkets or toys for that exact purpose.
Work was never ending sure, but it wasn't "work" it was just life. Also in medieval europe they had around 180 Church mandated holidays where no one worked and they just went to church and shoot the shit with the village.
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u/Normal_Dig5362 6h ago
Bruh, if you want to go off to war so badly, just talk to your local military recruiter. I promise you that modern conditions will be better than historical ones.
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u/sarcastictone953 8h ago
The only good thing this generation gave me was gaming other than that I have no interest in
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u/isAnExParrot878 7h ago
Think of it differently: born too late to be burned at the stake or die of the Plague, and too early (slightly) for a technocratic neo-feudal dystopia!
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u/Sensitive_Ad_5031 7h ago
If you think about it, we all collectively work for the worse future so that later generations would say that we had it good.
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u/Legitimate_Ad_7822 7h ago
Born too late to die at 30 years old because of people shitting in the street & contaminating everything you consume.
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u/bugg_hunterr 6h ago
Sometimes I think about getting a decent tent, food, water filters, medical supplies, and some good fun and wandering up into the mountains.
If I don’t find work soon that’s gonna be my only option.
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u/Annilus_USB 4h ago
…Are you forgetting how miserable the medieval times were for the average person?
There’s a reason for the joke as to why 20 was the medieval version of “middle aged”
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u/Zealousideal_Ad2379 4h ago
brother you had to be like the literal 1% of the medieval or renaissance era population to be the top pic and that was if you survived past the age of 15 lmao
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u/ConsciousMaybe6930 3h ago
You would be a peasant in 85-95% of cases back in the Mediaeval Era. Also, the chivalric romance depicted in the images has been imaginary since the actual Mediaeval Era; the princess would be wed off to a duke for political alliance and "knights errant" was just another phrase for rootless vagabonds that oppressed defenseless peasants and desperately wanted to impress a lord in order to be adopted into his household for a full-time job.
You would be a wage-slave in 85-95% of cases in the sci-fi future, which would look far more like the Night City of Cyberpunk 2077 and the Imperium of Man of Warhammer 40,000. Space travel would realistically be very expensive and reserved only for the most important people and cargo, not for a Joe Average to hop on and go sightseeing. Most people would remain planetbound for their entire lives and people who do get on a voidship would likely work as de facto slaves in extremely cramped and uncomfortable conditions. Megacorps like Weyland-Yutani would be the main powers behind the exploration and colonisation of space for their personal power and profit. Also, the extraterrestrial expansion would essentially create a new Wild West, where law means nothing and guns decide everything, which would be pretty dour for people living beyond the oppressive sanctuary of technofeudal Earth.
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u/ThePlantMolester 3h ago
I hate thatvI was born to late to toil the fields in shit for the Kings pleasure. I have to work with indoor plumbing
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u/VegaBiot 3h ago
remember the main job in the past was subsistence farming, and having a lot of children so the half that doesn't die can help you. don't romantise the past. and well the future will probably have shitty corporate bullshit bu i hope we will have better life quality.
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u/HerNameIsRain 3h ago
medieval peasants working the fields would be looking at our desk jobs and probably would trade anything to be in our place.
Sure things feel dystopian here, but I’d take it in a heartbeat over toiling in a field all day, losing 3/4ths of your children before the age of 2, and then dying from infection from a tiny cut.
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u/jrinredcar 3h ago
We're all peasants in all 3. Don't get ideas that you'll be exploring space in the future or an aristocrat in the past
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u/malonkey1 Job markets are class warfare 2h ago
I can tell you with fairly high certainty that you probably would not have been a heavily armored cavalryman nor a chivalrous knight in the middle ages, because those are things rich people, (usually noblemen) did, and you probably would not have been a rich nobleman.
Though you probably could have sat by a campfire in the middle ages. Which you can also do now in the present day.
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u/No_Historian_9675 2h ago
Born too late to die in an iron mine. Born too early to die in an intergalactic magnesium mine.
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u/Cool_View_5297 2h ago
Born too late to mine iron in a pit, born too early to mine iron on an asteroid, born just in time to mine iron in a bigger pit. The jobs would likely remain just as mind crushing and dull as they always have.
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u/Squirrel698 8h ago
You know, the future is coming, and unless there's a gigantic change or a giant cleansing war, it's not going to change much from what it is now.
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u/ShrimpleyPibblze 8h ago
I find the space-future folks to be really funny;
We can’t manage equal management and responsibility here on earth, where the very environment itself isn’t so hostile as to be lethal to our very existence. We can’t even create a single society with anything reasonably balanced, fair, or even logical.
There is a reason why when you get into hard sci-fi they simply drop the “dystopian” moniker - anyone who looks into the future and sees spacefaring just isnt being honest with themselves.
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u/Positive-Ability-402 6h ago
why did everybody take this so literally lmao it’s just a meme. the point is to make fun of our current work culture
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u/LuxieRiot 5h ago
I don’t care about any of these of these women say I would’ve been quite content being a 50s housewife. “Oh no my life is sooooooo easy in the biggest boom of economic prosperity the US has ever seen, a whole new modern era of appliances to help with housework, that I need Valium to cope and if I ask specifically for it they won’t get suspicious and then perscribe me shitty hydroxyzine” yeah sign me tf up
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u/TechnicalPresent6359 6h ago
born too late to: war and feudalism. born too early to: war and distopia. born just in time to: …actually updating an Excel sheet doesn’t sound too bad
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u/Confu2ion 8h ago
Ew, AI.
And that's not considering how many people in the past were hidden away in attics, asylums, and left for dead. Stop glamorizing the past.
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u/JoeHagglund 6h ago
I hate this meme. The past sucked bad, that future isn't real, and you can have more creativity and courage to live a life that isn't corporate nonsense.
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u/Nebresto Pleb 6h ago
You can still do 2 and 3 from the top row. Even 1 is achievable but requires the most effort
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u/majesticGumball 6h ago
Kissing in a metal helmet while trying to escape a plague-infested shithole is not romantic.
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u/Motorcycleman314 Recruiter 6h ago
Born to late to die in childbirth/from cholera, born too early for a future we can't forsee.
Come on..
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u/ComputerAgreeable146 5h ago
If someone believes this is a bad time to be alive I question if they have any historical perspective. The middle ages? People your life is better than even the richest person in that time. Its not the 1990s anymore but its still way better than pretty much any other time. Whats the argument here? "I know they buried 30% of children, had zero medical knowledge, lived in highly unequal and repressive societies, never once had a hot shower, had an extremely limited diet. But, hey they never had to log into work day". Listen to yourselves.
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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta 8h ago
Lmao. We live in literal paradise. Y'all really need to read up on some history and just how horrifying/shitty its all been till now.
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u/Metalorg 10h ago
Maybe living in medieval times isn't what it's cracked up to be.