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1. xioxox+97[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:18:04
>>hliyan+(OP)
Although adverts on the fridge are absolutely terrible, is this genuine? Here's a reddit post some time before that suggesting the scenario: https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/appa...
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2. GaryBl+H7[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:26:15
>>xioxox+97
Just because someone suggested a possible scenario could happen and it then did happen isn't all that suspicious to me.
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3. ffsm8+89[view] [source] 2025-12-06 09:45:22
>>GaryBl+H7
On Reddit? It should... These were historically almost always made up after people looked into it.

To be clear, the picture is likely real. The backstory to it probably not.

The people that actually feel like they've had the episode would almost certainly not go on social media with it. The venn diagram of people sharing such content, having the money to buy such a gigantic smart fridge and suffering from schizophrenia is miniscule

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4. tokai+ik1[view] [source] 2025-12-06 20:55:21
>>ffsm8+89
Its not minuscule at all. Some studies have employment rates for schizophrenics approaching 50%. In any case the rate is not 0%. Apparently when you look at the literature you find conclusions such as:

Very low employment rates are not intrinsic to schizophrenia, but appear to reflect an interplay between the social and economic pressures that patients face, the labour market and psychological and social barriers to working.[0]

Barriers like you believing you can generalize all schizophrenics to be poor/unemployed and unable to earn.

[0] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/S00127-004-0762-4

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