Post-Modern Economic Timeline

  • 1913

    Musician Elliot Knope refers to his bango performance as a “gig”.

  • 1929

    American population realize that money is worthless.

  • 1943

    Businesses are inspired by desperation to exploit the workforce by organizing temporary staffing agencies.

  • 1968

    Writers realize that the publishing industry feeds off their tears in a conspiratorial partnership with Lutheran leadership and the Congressional Committee for Capitalization.

  • 1975

    Garages become officially recognized universally as corporate headquarters.

  • 1987

    Driving becomes a white-collar profession.

  • 1999

    Employees are forced to create their own work through a system called networking.

  • 2007

    Companies realize that all work can be completed by schoolchildren googling answers.

  • 2013

    The Great Millenial Depression as young adults struggle to contain fear despite rising true crime content.

  • 2020

    Americans no longer have jobs or careers and drift aimlessly from start-ups to gigs, while dodging work-from-home scams.

  • 2024

    Companies are now just run by AI dominated committees, while humans live in a post-apocalyptic cycle of surviving through helping others with the exchange of virtual coins for goods and services.

I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.

Al Roker

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