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It was like that apologue, where the frog doesn’t realize it is being slowly boiled alive. After the machines wedged themselves between our social interactions, they introduced what is probably best described as a tax. You paid a monthly subscription to be verified as human. Instead of governments taxing the output of algorithms to pay for social services, the machines got in first. Want to participate in our digital society? Pay the humanity tax.

Use the comments to complete the following, “I do what I do because ____.”

 A photo of a large sculpture depicting how to pay a humanity tax to social platforms.

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