Big Issue
Just to clear the air: I haven’t watched Love Island. And I don’t know much about universal basic income, but I’m sitting in an overpriced one-bedroom apartment I can’t afford, nervously watching forgotten monthly subscriptions drain my bank account faster than a paypig’s on Valentine’s Day. So let’s just see how this goes.
Love Island, and shows like it, aren’t popular because they’re particularly interesting, they’ve captivated the attention of the public precisely because they don’t require attention. When work leaves us exhausted, and free time shrinks by the second, our waking hours are spent smiling at deadlines, going on runs with people who ghost us and doomscrolling when the world’s out the window.
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