HONEY, YOU’RE LUNCH MONEY™

There Is Such a Thing as a Free Lunch: YOU

... is an investigation into the hidden subsidies that make other people and systems appear more functional, affordable, responsive, resilient, and sustainable than they actually are.

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Honey, You're Lunch Money

Systems can look functional because somebody absorbs what the system doesn't.

- The missed handoff.
- The unfilled vacancy.
- The coordination nobody assigned.
- The consequences somebody prevents.
- The emotional labor.
- The after-hours recovery.
The thing you handled “just this once” six fucking years ago.

HYLM investigates where the real costs went—and who became the subsidy.

FOLLOW THE FUCKING COST

Something looks free, efficient, successful or functional. Fine. Who actually paid for it?

WAIT. AM I THE FUCKING SUBSIDY?

Maybe the transaction isn't merely suspicious. Maybe you're the human keeping it functional.

WAIT. WTF DO I ACTUALLY WANT?

Once everybody else's expectations, instructions and inherited plans are on the table, which parts of this life are actually yours?

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