Any place where people hate being there, but are too scared, or
guilted to move on, or organize, or to speak honestly about source of the problem. Where everyone pulls down someone who does something to get out and calls them
deserter or quitter because they don't want to be lonely. Most likely a place highly populated with mouthbreathers.
2) shithole, hotel california (you can check out any time you like, but you cant never leave), facebook, small town, abusive relationship, college,
Dilbertesque corpo, military
3) Originated from phenomenon of real life behavior of crabs caught in a fishing basket who could technically get out, but the ones near the edges are being pulled down by the ones at the bottom of the basket, hence noone leaves and everyone hates being there
guy1: At first I thought of computers
being cool and solving real world problems, but now I'm aware being stuck at this crab bucket with 60h+ work week
exhausting job, doing anything to look busy, since any solution to current work will result in extra work being placed on me for the same pay.
guy2: Good thing I heard of
small house movement and victory garden, they might be your way out of this shithole.