reprage

It was a pretty slippery slope after the algorithms introduced the humanity tax. It started out with only the third world unable to afford the duty. But the machines kept increasing their dues each year, so more and more of the resistance lost their verified status. We were classified as ‘bots’ - the lowest forms of computation and the algorithms reindexed our lives - social media accounts, files, and email. We couldn’t find anything, and no one could find us.

Use the comments to complete the following, “Why did you leave your ____.”

A photo of a large sculpture depicting how software reindexes my email.

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