Historical tour of a corporate worker's desk

Historical tour of a corporate worker's desk part 3. This technology is exactly what corporate workers would have used during this period. And yes, anthropologists do call it technology even though it looks rather crude to us today. Now, the laborers would occasionally use this work technology for recreational purposes as well and this was used as a temporary distraction from the meaningless labor. And thanks to the work of our digital anthropologists, I can show you a few examples of that recreation today. These are a few common windows that a laborer would have had open: YouTube, Spotify, and Amazon. Yes, Amazon. That's the same name as the extinct rainforest. That's right. We got some history buffs in here. Question, did the workers get paid well? Somewhat. But human knowledge worker pay began to decline circa 2023 or 2024. Yes, that's correct. The COVID 19 pandemic occurred right around this time, just a few years earlier. Does anybody know what year that pandemic occurred? 2020, correct. Yeah. Did you major in history? Maybe you wanna get up here and do the tour? So as memories of the global pandemic faded, the corporations decided that the mental and physical health of the laborers was not a priority. They also began to claim to rely more on AI for tasks as they cut salaries and jobs. This meant that many workers needed to reduce money-spending habits. The money earned for their toil was called dollars, or more colloquially bucks, like that cost five bucks. For example, a lot of them were fond of eating a sweet pastry or a piece of bread with little slices of avocado on top, along with a cup of hot milk with some coffee inside. This was commonly purchased from a local coffee shop. And just for those two things alone, it could cost as much as 20 bucks. Workers heavily relied on other sugary items as well and I'll put on my gloves again to show you something unique to our museum. These are original in their authentic packaging, Sour Patch kids. You hear that rustle? Yeah. Very typical of food packaging at that time. Um, you can see that this worker got a little hungry.