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Lo! Thy Dread Empire: Capitalism Will Work You To Death
and then resurrect your corpse to finish your shift
7 min readFeb 28, 2025
“THE EVER-DYING EARTH. A world where The Death Cults of Capitalism have killed, enslaved or recruited all living beings to their cause. Reality itself has been broken by an inhumane, alien logic. Bodies crushed under a life of endless toil are raised to work infinite-hour contracts. Magic and technology intertwine. No living force remains to oppose them. At least that was the case until an ancient incantation rang out across the blasted waste…
Arise ye wretched from your slumber!
Arise ye prisoners of want!
Arise for the skeleton war is now!”
— Lo! Thy Dread Empire, page 1
Metaphor and subtlety are dead! Long live explicit, on-the-nose allegory that cannot be mistaken for being apolitical by anyone with an IQ…
