Survivor from EarthUpdated at Jun 22, 2025, 18:41
Preparing for humanity's extinction was interesting, especially when she'd already accepted that death was imminent. They were offering places on a ship that would lead to survival that would be built by a billionaire who was renowned for vehicles that always malfunctioned in some form.For the richest man on Earth to sell the tickets at such a discounted Price that even the poorest of households was suspicious. For these tickets to be used in a sort of lottery made sense because human life had almost no value to him unless they were within the top one percent, but even that had exceptions. The combination of poor skills with the vehicle's history and his callous view of human life made him impossible to trust.Anyone who bought them was already gambling their survival simply by considering the unlikely chance of success from the vehicle, but there were so many who were desperate and wanted their family to survive. There was a certain cruelty to using the survival of the less fortunate for the benefit of a profit, always but especially when humanity would be extinct, leaving the majority desperate enough to do anything just to have a hope for surviving what was inevitable.Some had accepted their imminent demise, but most clung on to the perhaps delusional hope that being chosen by the lottery would lead to their survival.