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Comply with Abundance!

For the Public Announcement challenge

By Lana V LynxPublished about a month ago Updated 30 days ago 1 min read
Runner-Up in Public Announcement Challenge
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At an Investor Forum in 2025, Elon Musk stated that in 10-20 years, work would be optional for people because most goods and products would be abundantly produced by AI, money will be irrelevant, and technology will make human existence easy and pleasurable. Work will be more like play.

This is a public announcement from 2045:

***

The weekly distribution of foods and goods

will begin in your neighborhood tomorrow.

After your Universal High Income drops

into your digital wallet like a blessing that it is,

Report to your nearest Amazon Fulfillment Center

with proof of your documented need.

Proof is required. Repeat: Proof is required.

Photograph the thinning pantry,

the frayed sleeve, or worn-out panty,

record the appliance that croaks before failing.

Upload the evidence to your local branch

of the Universal Consumer Inventory

no later than one day

before your assigned Hour of Abundance.

Please comply. Repeat: Please comply

With the rules of the Distribution Day.

Follow the Fulfillment Center’s flow and pace.

It has been optimized for your convenience.

Do not abuse the inventory delivery robots

who remember everything anyway

(no spitting, no kicking, no sudden shutdowns).

Move efficiently. Repeat: Move efficiently

Do not gawk at the abundance.

Do not linger in awe or desire.

Take only what you need, not what you want.

Desire is inefficient and unnecessary.

Scan items strictly in the order of your approved inventory.

Check out fast, do not improvise.

Do not clog the parking lot when leaving.

Final reminder:

Your inventory is not valid at the underground Costco.

Please do not support that rebel organization

with your live money, whatever remains of it.

Competition is unnecessary

in a society of post-scarcity and abundance.

Happiness is compliance.

Happiness is contentment.

You must be content

with what you need and receive,

not with what you want.

Costco is a relic.

A fossil of chaos.

A memory of choice.

Do not fund the past

with income you never earned.

Thank you for participating.

Abundance continues, happiness abounds

with your non-challenging compliance.

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About the Creator

Lana V Lynx

Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist

@lanalynx.bsky.social

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  • Marilyn Glover19 days ago

    I love the futurist vibe, Lana, and I got a kick out of this: "Your inventory is not valid at the underground Costco. Please do not support that rebel organization" Congratulations on your runner-up win❣

  • Novel Allen20 days ago

    I swear, these public announcements are quite chillingly close to truth. Congrats.

  • Well done!🥳 Chilling prospect.😬

  • Lamar Wiggins20 days ago

    Congrats, Lana!!! Great entry that gave me a chuckle in all its glory... So happy for you!

  • Wooohooooo congratulations on your win! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊

  • Gregory Payton20 days ago

    Congratulations on placement in the challenge. Well Done!!

  • Andrea Corwin 20 days ago

    I missed this!! It is great - Do not abuse the inventory delivery robots who remember everything anyway…underground Costco, LOL. Work will NEVER be more like play, Elon. Congratulations, my friend!!

  • This is great, Lana. I love it. I'm smiling right now as I comment. I fully remember that comment from Musk. That is an *inspired* premise to use for this. Very freaking cool. And when I got to your Costco underground and all the Costco references, I was giggling. Sounds *exactly* like the kind of shit Musk would like to leave as a "legacy." I wish you luck with this challenge! You already saw how I screwed up and missed the deadline. Would be great if something humorous like this did well. Thanks for the grins! ⚡💙 Bill⚡

  • WOW. Thank you 包公❤️❤️ 包公❤️❤️ 包公❤️❤️ Scary.

  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarranabout a month ago

    At first it seemed wonderful that we don't have to work, then it became scary as I read on hahaha. Loved this!

  • Denise E Lindquistabout a month ago

    Wow... scary!!💖

  • Excellent fun take on the challenge

  • Raymond G. Taylorabout a month ago

    Ha ha I love to speculate about high tech future failings and this was a gem. There is of course already a global super abundance of food, it just doesn’t reach everyone who needs it.

  • Antonuos Zareyabout a month ago

    Good 👍

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