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nuxvomica

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7. I wrote a sci-fi story about this
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 09:27 AM
Sep 2022

When a predictable global cataclysm wipes out all life on earth, a thousand billionaires escape on a spaceflight to a wormhole near Saturn, where they would be ultimately transported to a distant earth-like planet, aided by thousands of android servants who were programmed not to interfere with the humans' interactions, because "freedom". The story is told by the last surviving billionaire who details how a fight between a Russian oligarch and a Saudi prince escalated through fear and revenge to a series of killings leaving only one billionaire left. And of course the androids couldn't stop it from happening. As the last survivor ponders his future, he wonders whether any of the billionaires who stayed in underground bunkers with android servants, same programming, ever survived. The point being their wealth and freedom, combined with their sociopathic tendencies, sealed their fates.

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