Service Model

by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Given the considerable investment in domestic service that Charles represented, surely he should be allowed to murder three, or even five people before being deemed irreparably unfit for service.

None of these things are efficient or logical. I wish to report an error in the way that everything works.

The induction had waxed long on the topic of robots and other automated helpmates replacing human labour, but he hadn’t realised that, back in the past, humans had worked so hard to live like robots. The endless round of tasks, the queuing, the utter repetitiveness of these people’s lives. They must, Uncharles predicted, be so grateful to have such lives designed for them. How good it must be to have no choices or options.

They were part of the problem, even though they never actively did bad things to people. They just benefited from all the bad things that had been done.”

“Justice is a human-made thing that means what humans wish it to mean and does not exist at all if humans do not make it,” Uncharles said. “I suggest that ‘kind and ordered’ is a better goal. It is possible that the world was

once both kind and ordered. It is possible that it may be so again. Perhaps you will make it so.”