Farm Life Then and Now

1985 Please son, your mother and I are getting old. Please take the farm from us and continue the family traditions. Your great grandfather from Germany spent his entire life working hard for our land Sorry pops, but I just found this totally cool suburban home! Time to sell the farm and put you in a nursing home! Now Please son, why are you so unhappy all the time? Don't you want to sell your soul to a corporation working in an office 40+ years in order to pay off college debt and an overpriced two-bedroom house? I want to escape the degeneracy of this dystopian hell. I want to follow the footsteps of my great, great grandfather before me, and work hard to buy a plot of land of my own, and return to the realm of freedom

A four-panel Wojak meme contrasts a 1985 family farm with modern life. In the first scene, a son rejects the farm for a suburban house and sends his father to a nursing home; in the present-day scene, the son regrets corporate work, debt, and expensive housing, longing to return to independent farming. The joke satirizes nostalgia for traditional rural life and the perceived degeneration of modern society. EN: A four-panel Wojak meme contrasts a 1985 family farm with modern life. In the first scene, a son rejects the farm for a suburban house and sends his father to a nursing home; in the present-day scene, the son regrets corporate work, debt, and expensive housing, longing to return to independent farming. The joke satirizes nostalgia for traditional rural life and the perceived degeneration of modern society.

• @eternalclassic / 755 2021-10-03