You think over the scenario in your head and decide that a backdoor might be a good idea and that this guy might not be a plant.
“Okay.” You said “You’re right with the What should I do?”
“Hmm...” the new guy thinks as he spins a stylus around in his hand. “A kill phrase that turns over control of the bot to the guy who says it.”
“Okay, so I need to develop a kill phrase, I think an insult that would be said to the president would work, hmm, maybe social justice warrior?”
“Nah, SJW would be easily seen in the code by a third party, think internationally.”
“Baizo.” I reply.
“Baizo? What does that mean?”
“It was a term used by some Chinese years ago as an insult to Social Justice Warriors. Think it means white left or something like that. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ambassadors call the President that. At the same time, giving control of a robot guarding the President to another country could amount as treason.”
“Well regardless, you’ll end up arrested or killed by just existing eventually.”
“You’re right on that.”
You program the robot with a override phrase initiated with the word “Baizo”. During this, you have an occasional second guess at doing this, thinking you could die if discovered, but keep on going.

After working on it for a while, it then becomes lunchtime. You reflect back on the day so far. Like every day, it’s been a busy day with tons of decisions you had to make in order to avoid getting arrested. Times you wish it would just end. The words of the new guy echo in your head about what else is going on outside the country. You hope your decisions were good ones so far today.

With the way the country is going, you wonder how long it will sustain itself. Nothing new is researched in the country, all of it being overseas. The country is accruing massive amounts of debt because proper spending was thrown out the window. The ultra-rich picked up and went to other countries and moved their money out long before the 100% tax over 200k was instituted or when repatriations began to give to minority groups, as they saw the writing on the wall.

The only good thing is certain things that shouldn’t be excessively expensive are either cheap or free, covered by taxes. The only downside is anything you make, all of it is taken away from you with only a small allowance to get you by if by any chance your wife finds you useless and kicks you out of the marriage. You hope that eventually happens, but you assume that she enjoys the extra money every month.

You look at your phone as you walk over to the cafeteria to see what money you have. With what you make weekly, 30% gets taken out as a “privilege tax”, 20% gets taken out as a reparations fee because you’re white, and 40% is taken by your wife before it makes it to your bank account. With the remaining 10% you have left, you are taxed at 50%. It’s kind of amazing how you are able to make ends meet with that little money. You kinda regret giving that $500 to your son earlier today as that would have been enough to feed you for the rest of the week. You go to an ATM to take out some more money. After inserting your phone into a tray, a $500 card pops out. You side it into the back case of your phone so you can tap the cash register and pay for it. You have only $250 left in that bank account to last you the week, just enough probably to pay for some groceries for dinner and breakfast.

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