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The year is 2031. You are escorted to your table and given the finest plastic cutlery and cottonelle diaper wipes. You check your diaper with your bluetooth app and all appears to be fine; 75% load capacity. A plate is brought out. On the plate is the hand of a orang-otang.
"Is this lab-grown?" you ask the waiter, who is behind bulletproof glass. "Oh yes," they assure you. "Damn well better be. I'm paying through the nose to eat ethically," you say. "We at McDonald's grow the food on site. Would you like a spritz of vaccine? Some antibiotics?"
This is all very well, you suppose. You check Discord. It seems your clones are doing a good job "leveling" at the various JRPGs you've assigned them to work. Reinvesting that UBI in clones was a wise move. You hop on Speakerrr and peruse the hot takes, 50% deep fakes & 50% AI
Fursuit pretty privilege seems to be the topic du jour. No one discusses the cost of these suits, but why would they? They're AIs. Money is no more valuable to them than wind or air. They instead focus on intricate cancellations of each other's personalities. Few survive the day
Little of this matters to you. Most of your life is spent walking between the tube connecting this food room to your sleep cell. The days pass quickly enough, with you and your clones getting on like a bunch of tonsured monks or old maids. You suppose you've discovered happiness
“Escorted”? I’m pretty sure the correct term is “sex worked”
Yes, almost certainly. In fact, by this point, the words "work" and "worker" (which carry negative connotations) have been replaced by "sex work" and "sex worker." We are all doing the sex work now
Year 2031? More like 2031 hours today
The Twilight Zone twist is that...this is just Right Now. This future is our present
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