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Last year, you pulled cards for 2,300 paying clients and called it your 'soul-aligned vocation.' The state has reviewed your Stripe receipts, your Substack tier structure, and your 'Clair-Sentient Business Foundations' online course, and it has arrived at a different classification entirely. Your shovel, as it turns out, is deeply aligned with your soul.
You spent four years hand-stitching $180 tote bags and calling it the dismantling of fast capitalism. You wrote a Substack about it. You were on a podcast. The state read the Substack, listened to the podcast, and has decided that someone who can sew that well has absolutely no business charging $180 for a tote bag when Textile Mill 9 has a loom quota to meet.
The Central Planning Committee has completed its assessment of contemporary identity phases and found them incompatible with essential infrastructure maintenance. Your character arc has been reassigned.
The Central Planning Committee has completed its review of your viral 'soft life' content and determined that your aesthetic of doing absolutely nothing translates perfectly to maritime labor. Pack your silk pillowcases — you're shipping out to Alaska.
Madison's viral Medium essay about abolishing borders and working from anywhere just earned her a permanent, non-remote position at Collective Swine Unit #47. The WiFi situation is... challenging.
You built a second brain. The revolution has reviewed it. The revolution is not impressed. Comrade, your color-coded habit tracker cannot shovel sulfur — but you absolutely can, starting Monday.
You spent three years and forty-seven online quizzes discovering that you are a Type 4 Enneagram Individualist with a Human Design Projector overlay and a Mercury in Retrograde communication style. The Central Planning Committee spent eleven seconds reviewing your file. You're going to Siberia.
After six years of graduate study in Expressive Arts Therapy and roughly 400 hours of personal journaling about my post-revolutionary role, the Central Planning Committee reviewed my application and assigned me to Collective Farm No. 7 in a region where the sun sets at 2pm from October through March. It turns out somatic healing circles are considered a 'luxury output' when the quota for beets is 40,000 tonnes.