Machine world 406
Tom Foyle
(2002)
The inhabitants of the machine world transfargo had arisen from the muck, and overcome the real hardships of life.
They had achieved this through hard work and keeping their noses to the grind stone.
They thought they were travelling towards a golden age.
They used a reward scheme to share out the benefits of their labour.
Those that worked hard would be rewarded with resources they could use to make their lives easier.
Since the real hardships of life had been banished it was though that utopia would just happen. Unfortunately due to bad initial wiring the inhabitants were programmed by insatiable greed and want. So they just kept working to get more and more rewards. Soon they worked continuously only stopping to eat, shit and fuck.
They knew that they had no time to enjoy their rewards, but just couldn't stop. They convinced themselves that their offspring would reap their rewards and that they would reach utopia. Unfortunately they were not aware of there programming and so passed on this faulty programming to there offspring, who could not help but continue this faulty programming and so repeated ad infinitum the folly of their parents. And so what initially seemed so promising a society was screwed due to their unfortunate glitchy programming.
The End
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