“In 2021 the vast majority of the whitecollar workforce in Western civilization, along with its future crop of college graduates, were coerced to take on-going doses of a new experimental pharmaceutical. In 2022, an ongoing downturn in the global economy started to induce mass layoffs of this workforce. At the same time, and seamlessly beginning in 2023, new software which demonstrated the ability to automate the tasks of this workforce was rolled out to the general public in the form of ChatGPT. The effect of this has been to initiate a transition towards automation of almost all knowledge-based roles within both public and private sectors. 2021: Corporate workforce and higher education students mandated to take experimental pharmaceutical. 2022: Economic collapse inducing mass layoffs in the corporate workforce and abolishing career prospects for college graduates. 2023: Rollout of new technology rendering most of the corporate workforce redundant, and beginning large scale investment in this transition. These are just the facts. Placed in order. The extreme nature of the implication doesn’t change them."

The Pharmakon