The Permanent Upper Crow

aselimov3

This is quality

Yumat

It never ends… Super cool concept

saaaaaam

Well done! Fun and satirical

dheera

Yep, this is basically the world today. The only difference in the real world: "What if I told you you can buy that $10 hat today using borrowed money that you don't have, pay $1/year interest for the rest of your life until you pay it back, but you have to earn $2/year more in order to have $1/year more to pay, but to earn $2/year more, your company has to earn $3/year more" "Oh and you also need to buy insurance for that $10 hat because it's not yours, and you have to pay us for the insurance we're going to buy in addition to the insurance you're going to buy to insure us from you, so that'll be another $1, or you have to make $2 more to have $1, or your company needs to make $3 more, so now your company needs to make $6/year more" "Oh and we're also going to devalue the $ so you actually need to make $10/year more because a $ won't be worth that much in a couple years"

arjie

Fascinating. I was able to escape the suffering by simply not purchasing a top hat. An interesting lesson that the pursuit of conspicuous consumption is the root of one’s own suffering. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.

nprbst

CAWn't believe how hard this hits

jc4883

How does it come up with the CEO and business' name? I assume there's gotta be finite number and the game has to end (?) Anyways, sick game.

thegrim33

What's interesting is the creator of the site has listed on their linkedin that they're ... wait for it ... a co-founder at some generic AI startup with the goal of using AI agents to automate away manual jobs.

juancn

So that's how you become a galactic civilization!

RAZKOM

I honestly love the look of the website. It makes me want to play/make a 2d scroller.

imnotyy

Reminded me of a book called Finite and Infinite Games

Tossrock

In case you're wondering, there are 106 CEOs / companies, and at 107 it just loops around.

calvisitor

hey when does this game end?

kbutler

The real message is that, even if you don't get rich and can't buy that clothing item that is 10x your nest worth, your work can provide for your needs and your family - rent, groceries, helping extended family... (Worked at a couple of startups, didn't get rich, but had good experiences, paid for family needs, and put aside investments for the future.)

kerblang

I feel stupid but I could not bring myself to click the "sign" button and continue gameplay. A lot of electronic contracts are done like that and... nope, not clicking it... Mmmmm.... nope.

jryio

This is a play on words from this (excellent) NYTimes Opinion piece by Jasmine Sun [1] titled "Silicon Valley is bracing for the permanent underclass" [1]": https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/opinion/ai-labor-work-for... (Gift article)

allknowingfrog

I feel like I'm missing something here. Was this supposed to be a game? I just kept clicking and reading and clicking and reading. I finally gave up. If the goal is to tell a non-interactive story, I'd rather just scroll...

bunforfun12138

Cool stuff hits hard