My Co-worker Is an Eldritch X! - Ch. 9 - The Assessment

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"Absolute dogshite" is a ... very accurate assessment if we are being frank.
On a related note once again we find something eldritch like a circle written in blood but the local eldritch horror doesn't seem to think much of it and considers it "graffiti" so it probably has no power ... then again the way she wondered why humans use blood for Graffiti feels like this isn't the first time she saw something like that either.
 
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Dang...
This was kinda dialogue heavy and depressing.

Sad that the only way to survive in such an environment is by having cheat skills like her.
Sucks that most societies are based on just making more money and competition instead of helping out everyone which further reinforced by bad policies and those with power.

She might be leaning a little into altruism.

I'm sure if I read this again while focusing on stuff like her being homeless, smelly and weird then I'll find it to be funnier.

Also someone drew some kinda graffiti and possible magic circle using their blood on the ceiling? Wonder if that could lead to anything. :finnawoke:
And the precision of her counting is so weird, like did she stop the counting as she said the number or when she started the sentence? We know she ain't lying.
Clearly she is just making observations and inquiries but I wanna know more about her.

It's this eldritch mystery + existential dread + comedy that I signed up for.
 
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"What you're describing is called "communism". It's been tried several times, but the problem with that system is that it requires profound centralization of power and a massive bureaucracy. Turns out when you put those two things together, the people you ask to run the system will abuse their power to enrich themselves obscenely, to the detriment of everybody else. Usually it's the representatives of the government who hold all that power, and are the ones who become corrupt. You get narcissism and cronyism in your government officials, and usually the ruling group will excise anyone competent enough to be a potential threat, resulting in absurd levels of systemic ineptitude.

Though, nobody's ever attempted communism with a direct democracy, which I figure would have the best shot at actually working. A direct democracy would divide power among all the members of the society, so nobody would have enough power to take advantage, theoretically. Then again, that would have it's own issues, like populism and political parties, so I'm not convinced it would work any better.

The American Amish have a fairly successful collectivist system, but it's only been done on small scales and in ethnically uniform groups, so I don't know how it'd work world-wide."

"it seems avarice is a fatal flaw of your sociopolitical systems, human."
"Yeah, it seems that way..."
 

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