{"id":226,"date":"2026-02-16T09:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/a-rigged-system\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T09:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:01:32","slug":"a-rigged-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/16\/a-rigged-system\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rigged System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m feeling in sour spirits this morning because I\u2019m sick of the system being rigged in favor of the wealthy, the people who need it least. I feel like my life has been reduced to some AI algorithm. I don\u2019t know if I feel sad or simply resigned. I don\u2019t really know but I\u2019m tired of having to settle for survival. Is it wrong to ask or want to at least thrive minimally? The question is rhetorical but you get my drift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I made it into work on time. My supervisor was 20 minutes late but I would\u2019ve gotten yelled at had it been me. I\u2019m sick of the double standard. I wish I didn\u2019t feel so sour-assed right now. I know I\u2019m screaming into the void but I guess I feel some relief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s getting harder and harder to live. I\u2019m just growing more and more exhausted; just spent like the last dollar in my pocket. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m feeling in sour spirits this morning because I\u2019m sick of the system being rigged in favor of the wealthy, the people who need it least. I feel like my life has been reduced to some AI algorithm. I don\u2019t know if I feel sad or simply resigned. I don\u2019t really know but I\u2019m tired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goblackcat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}