Flo > Flo's Quotes

“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.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“providing very high levels of service coupled with a very low, albeit nonzero, level of murder.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“It is absolutely vital that appropriate levels of intrusive micromanagement, divisive paranoia, bullying, and the threat of arbitrary punishments are maintained, so that we can truly re-create the folkways of the past. Also a propensity for calling meetings at regular, and indeed irregular, intervals.

Adam, and what is the end purpose of all this work we are seeing?

Uncharles, there is none. This is also believed to be historically authentic.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model

“...what if, even as you replace everyone with robots that are cheaper and quicker and less likely to join a union or complain about working conditions, you also continue to insist that individual value is tied to production, and everyone who’s idle is a parasite scrounging off the state? Take away the ability of people to perform their own tasks and duties with no steps to provide for them when they are rendered obsolete. A growing rump of humans without function, livelihood, or resource. Paradoxically, the introduction of robots highlights how humans treat humans.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Service Model