Silence around the room; Winston is the one who breaks it. "Are you serious? MetaHuman has definitely straddled the line of what's morally acceptable, but you're talking about constant surveillance, in all matters. You're talking about the Surgeons making every choice concerning food, resources, reproduction, technological development—about everything that matters. This is not cooperation. This is enslavement."
"How long do you think this world has, as things stand?" you ask. "How long before our ever-expanding population overstretches this planet's resources? Or until a mad, capitalist desire for profit leads us to hollow out this world's intestines, leaving nothing but an empty shell? Earth is dying—its people are dying. And I propose stopping that decline, here and now."
Your colleagues are worried. But you're confident that they do indeed trust your judgment on this, for now.
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