There’s a gig app that includes all sorts of work even crime. The crime is neccessary to maintain economic balance. You getting caught is also determined by the app, but you may get lucky and get robbery job that doesn’t result in your arrest. So poor people do crimes as a job, some get locked up to maintain the PIC, some get away with it. The ones who get away the most are famous on social media (even though it’s entirely chance). They then stop doing crimes and start staging them in order to make money from streaming.

“A typical adult requires at least 8 hours of sleep per night to maintain optimal cognitive function. When you miss sleep, you can’t give your best at work the next day - that’s not fair on customers, or on the rest of your team.” You apologize, frowning remorsefully. Yes, you’re deeply sorry for staying up past your bedtime last night, and you’re going to furrow your brow deeply to show it. Apparently the computer likes that. You’re not going to escape a warning this time - your blood alcohol was also higher than permitted for a week night - but if it sees that you regret your iniquity, it might not bump the matter up to the next level. You know, the one where you get reprimanded by an actual human.

You wonder if the implant has finally overstayed its welcome. Just idle wondering, of course: the company’s implant-monitored health insurance plan is the only one you can afford by a long way. And it gives you access to the health food section of the cafeteria: even if the fresh stuff is too pricey to have, except as an occasional treat, the synthetics are still more filling than anything on the standard menu.

You never know how the removal will go, either. Guy on third tried to get his taken out because he was moving jobs (you buy the casing, the device is company property), but one in 10 000 folks will scar around it and that poor fucker was the one. In the contract, it says you’re liable for the insertion and removal procedures, and normally that’s no biggie - it leaves how it came in: through a big, wide needle. But that scarring thing meant a hospital trip and… Well, good thing they had him under already to hack it out or the cash he made off the pancreas might not have covered everything.

future rap flex vid but instead of piles of money its jugs of water

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As a result of the mass shift in the economic basis from owning to renting and mega corporations attempts at squeezing every bit of profit out of their media rights, legislation has passed deeming personal media illegal and contraband. As a result, black markets emerge selling various pre Great Reset tech, like iPods, computers running Windows XP, calculators, CDs and DVDs, fat model Playstations 2s, pretty much anything incapable of being directly controlled and surveilled by the Counterfeit and Digitals Control agencies. The ownership of these things are prohibited, and punishments are severe. Raids are common and a counter-culture of piracy and theft has emerged out of the surviving mini drone attacks. This is in general a working class affair, but in some petit bourgeois circles, the children of neo-empire acquire this tech with little to no punishment.