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

[delta_angelfire]

wait, how did she get her apartment the first time then?

 

[Highimpact673]

Chapter 10 be like: My Homeless Chain Smoking Communist Eldritch Coworker is moving in with me after failing to pay her rent on time.

(If only her fundamental necessities "cigs" required for life could be payed for by state welfare programs)

 

[hippotank]

do not worry, the people that are your komrades are doing worst that capitalism XD

Ah yes I too come to the discussion thread of eldritch horror manga to learn the ins and outs of political theory and its implementation throughout history

 

[Me]

Well, you see Miss Eldritch Being From Beyond The Stars... that's a mouthful... Hoshi-chan, the purpose of a species isn't really the cutoff. The purpose of any individual member of a species is to see their specific lineage passed on and propogated. There is a biological imperative to beat others of our species and "win", and while many forms of society have been constructed to benefit the species, they are usually twisted by that impetus to win and those who can accumulate power do so and then use it to oppress those who didn't.

Ultimately, the form of society you propose falls into the same problems as the society you exist in, because the root problem's not the rules, it's the people.

Please save us, Hoshi-chan! Seize the reins of society and steer us towards the goal we cannot achieve ourselves due to rampant self-sabotage!

 

[Vemon]

Thank you Senkuin, I love every drop A YEAR now, I know you draw every single pixel by hand and appreciate the work can wait for the next one

 

[razorshaleh]

same vibe

 

[kazaddum]

do not worry, the people that are your komrades are doing worst that capitalism XD

+50 FICO score, soon you'll be able to get that loan to pay for you medical bill!

 

[McNep]

"Have I exceeded your expectations?"
His honest reaction:

 

[vincent-]

I love the colors choices the shadows being where they're at. Gives it a very dark vibe but keeping the dialogue grounded.

 

[AzraelPrimal]

If we've got eldritch horrors, wouldn't be surprising for actual demons to exist too. Hopefully, whoever drew that stuff summoned a chill one

 

[Tairo]

Props to the human to speak truth to power.

Also, I love that she is in favor true communism.

Eh, just means she doesn't know enough to understand why communism doesn't work, hence why she questioned it. She barely understands survival instincts or human behavior so far, after all.
Though, she is right about the government being unnecessarily complicated and getting in the way, because that makes any system worse. Which is funny because a super complex gov is necessary in a communist system, but I digress.

 

[asdfgh1111]

+50 FICO score, soon you'll be able to get that loan to pay for you medical bill!

>be Chinese
>post an image of Winnie the Poo online
>Secret police kick my door down, tie a sack over my head and throw me into a van
>the van drives me to a hospital
>the doctor extracts my heart and puts it into a 78 year old low ranking local official
>this is the eighth time the doctor has done this today
>as my vision fades and I take my last breath I take solace in knowing that the procedure didn't cost me anything

 

[Solipsist]

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.

Glad to think that she might be going 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 what? Someone drew some kinda graffiti and possible magic circle using their blood on the ceiling? Wonder if that could lead to anything.
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.

High-socities have the base expectations of generational wealth, in the sense of currency, housing and most importantly, networking.

"she" being a literal outsider, without even government support or attempting to use homeless shelters and soup kitchens, means she truly has no starting point to stand on.
Even a lower-socio-economic person has more support networks than it does.

So, the moral here is just that: Yeah, complex societies are complex, and are hard to integrate into. They expect you to "know and have things" by premise, rather than purely because of capitalism.

 

[Solipsist]

Eh, just means she doesn't know enough to understand why communism doesn't work, hence why she questioned it. She barely understands survival instincts or human behavior so far, after all.
Though, she is right about the government being unnecessarily complicated and getting in the way, because that makes any system worse. Which is funny because a super complex gov is necessary in a communist system, but I digress.

Just saying, if anything, the issue isn't that governments are overly complicated, but that they are abusable and prone to corruption, and its inherent complexities are used to filibuster and stop positive change.

Human law is complex because it has to be, too many diff scenarios and circumstances and types of people to account for, for it to be simple.
My one and only real issue with govs, is the ever present idea of "rules for thee, but not for me!"
The rich and networked get a free pass, for what others get a lifetime sentence.

 

[djbubbles]

Her assessment makes it seem like the creature is under some vague assumption that everyone would just contribute to the shared resources, and not attempt to get more than they need, or just lase around if it came to that. She does know humans aren't on some level of hivemind right?

what you are describing is called "crime" and it's punished under capitalism too, but only when the classes who don't wield the power of the state do it.
the rational, self-interested human is a collectivist who understands that cooperation is more efficient than competition and that the abstraction of debt needlessly complicates society and makes resource distribution less efficient. e.g., cities spend more in various expenses dealing with homeless people than they would just building free homes for them because it's "unfair" or "feels wrong" to give free homes out in a society that runs on the concept of debt, even though it's obviously the more efficient thing to do.
but you are right, humans are not a hivemind. they're mostly irrational too. all we can do is point out the contradictions in the systems in which we live and hope to convince those around us to agree to abide by more efficient and logical ways of self-governance than we do now. utopia is impossible, but shoot for the moon and you'll land among the stars.

 

[finalm]

>be Chinese

post an image of Winnie the Poo online
Secret police kick my door down, tie a sack over my head and throw me into a van
the van drives me to a hospital
the doctor extracts my heart and puts it into a 78 year old low ranking local official
this is the eighth time the doctor has done this today
as my vision fades and I take my last breath I take solace in knowing that the procedure didn't cost me anything

Secret police comes in various flavours. If you'd rather just be shot like a dog on the street by them, and the murder justified by calling you a terrorist, then definetly go for those FICO points.

 

[Xelarion]

I love the very accurate assessment that it's the dumbest fucking thing for us to embrace this capitalist hellhole that we call a society, with an immediate jump to "no, you still live like a stray dog in a dump".

It's genuinely just a sign of quality.

 

[Kaito57]

Finally somebody with proper taste in the comment section of this manga.

 

[ShyGuy-096]

Ch.10 - Seize the means of production with me, human.

 

[chill_forreal_]

Amazing how we're collectively gathering around chain-smoking eldritch-chan's story to debate about society of all things tho yall are too smart muh brain hurts trying to follow lel