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“Let him kill himself,” I said finally. “As long as he is dead, that is all that matters to me.” That’s something I think peasants understand better than nobles. For them, the way down matters, whether you are skewered by a dozen guardsmen or thrown in a silk sack to drown or allowed to remove your robe and walk down to the shores of the lake before you gut yourself. Peasants understand that dead is dead.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“but deep down, I thought she would never be alone again, not it I could help it. Being close to her was like being warmed by a bonfire, and I had been cold for a long time.”
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
― The Empress of Salt and Fortune
“providing very high levels of service coupled with a very low, albeit nonzero, level of murder.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“When one of the kitchen domestics had begun breaking plates, it had only been on the third breakage that the unit had been retired as unfit for purpose. Given the considerable investment in domestic service that Charles represented, surely he should be allowed to murder three, or even five people before being deemed irreparably unfit for service.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
“...what if, even as you replace everyone with robots that are cheaper and quicker and less likely to join a union or complain about working conditions, you also continue to insist that individual value is tied to production, and everyone who’s idle is a parasite scrounging off the state? Take away the ability of people to perform their own tasks and duties with no steps to provide for them when they are rendered obsolete. A growing rump of humans without function, livelihood, or resource. Paradoxically, the introduction of robots highlights how humans treat humans.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
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