Challenge #01835-E011: The Caring Gap — Steemit
Alice was technically a Cam Girl and technically a Gamer. In reality, that meant grinding assorted games for a pitiful income per game per hour, and taking selfies at least four times a day. In the eyes of a certain generation, she was lazy and vain.
The fact was, she was doing everything she could to raise enough to (a) keep alive, and (b) pay off the debt she owed for a degree she’d got for a job that had been shipped off to a different country. She ran a Patreon. She had an Etsy shop. She had a Ko-fi account. She spent every hour of every day scraping for pennies and doing whatever she could to get someone to pass her a couple of dollars.
She barely made it to the poverty line, lived on food stamps, and kept looking for what everyone else called “a real job”. She had more friends online than she had friends in the neighbourhood. Especially considering that the entire population were practically vagrants and, much like Alice, scraping to make rent and eat at the same time.
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Challenge #01477-D016: One Fine Day in an Impoverished Neighbourhood
“I wish time would skip ahead. I got here too early.” – @witterprompts
Paul checked her watch. “You’re right on time.”
“No. I mean… the whole future thing. It’s like… most of my time has been spent waiting for stuff that should have been here, already. Like… I dunno. Tablets should have always been there since my childhood, you know.”
“And flying cars?” teased Paul.
“No. Dur. You can’t have flying cars until after self-driving cars have taken over. Because, look at existing traffic. We’re not going to get much better in three dimensions,” Karen was in full rant mode by now. “We should have telepresence tablets by now. Something like Google Glass only way more flexible for people who need glasses. Shit, we should be making glasses _extinct_ by now. And not by lasic. It’s like technology has slowed the heck down and nobody knows why.”