u/Careless-Alarm-8607

Many of these people seem to be convinved that a 150k annual salary makes them destitute and not being able to afford going a a luxury cruise ship every uear to the Mediterranean is a real struggle...

Where I'm from, the average annual salary for full-time workers is about 2.4k -3k per month yet when I visit my region's main sub, you see post after post of entitled upper middle class people complaining how little they're paid for their IT work while making aboit 85-90USD per hour.

There was even a recent post in the sub where someone living in Washington DC working as a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer and the person has an annual salary of almost 200k and even bragged abiut being able to go to DisneyWorld every year with his family. A recruiter called him about a position at Amgen in Puerto Rico paying $45 an hour, and it’s an on-site role. From his perspective, earning $200,000 a year it might seem like a low salary, but he insisted that it’s a poverty wage in Puerto Rico—an island where nearly 40% of people live in poverty and almost all jobs are part-time and pay 10.50/hr.

I've also noticed that most of these "Reddit poors" have very expensive hobbies that go from PC gaming to collecting Funko Pops. It doesn t seem to dawn on them that they arent actually poor or struggling but just very shitty at administrating their money. And they'll insist theyre working class while being classist af towards actual working class people.

I was thinking about this scenario where a civilization lives on top.of or inside of colossal trees that look like Giant sequoia, either in complex tree houses or carved rooms inside the tree. I know many tiny critters live in trees their whole live in tiny ecosystems what about humans or some other humanoid species like some sort of squirrel people? How could they grow food or practice sanitation?

For me my fave is The Tainted Cup's biological magic system. Instead of traditional spellcasting the Empire uses modified biology to create superhuman abilities. Humans are alrered through apoth sciences. Essentially magical biotechnology derived from leviathans and fungi.

Another one I like is the Smoke from Dorohedoro. It's very basic but the way it is integrated into the worldbuilding and biology makes it cool to me. Plus it makes mushroom magic terrifying.