PIGS: A Post-Orwellian Fable

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by Ima Merican

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What happens after "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"? In this darkly satirical modern fable inspired by Orwell's warnings, the pigs have evolved beyond the farm. Napoleon's descendants now rule from Manhattan's glass towers, having transformed subsistence into algorithms and solidarity into stock options. They've created the perfect system: humans and animals alike toil in Productivity Pods while BOXER, an AI that makes Orwell's windmill look quaint, optimizes away every inefficiency, including joy, rest, and eventually, survival itself. But when you Feed the Insatiable Greed, it eventually eats the greedy. As Napoleon (the new one) accumulates infinite digital wealth, he discovers the fatal flaw in owning everything: when you've extracted all value from every other creature, when you've "optimized" away the workers who grow food, deliver goods, and maintain civilization, you're left starving in a penthouse, surrounded by gold you can't eat, trying to open a can of your own company's food with hands too weak from hunger to operate a can opener. PIGS is a fable for the age of billionaires and blockchain, where the wheel of fortune becomes a wheel of consequences. It asks the essential question: What happens when the 0.01% finally achieve their dream of having it all? The answer involves a city buried in garbage, a feast of consequences, and the hardest truth of all, that those who forget they need others are doomed to eat themselves. A cautionary tale about mistaking numbers for nourishment, efficiency for life, and ownership for power. Because in the end, all animals really are equal, especially in their ability to starve. "A brilliant and necessary reimagining of Orwell's classic warnings for the 21st century, where the pigs learn that controlling all the wealth means nothing when there's no one left to create it. The insatiable greed that consumes everything eventually consumes itself, leaving only one option: remember what we forgot in the race to own everything - that survival requires cooperation, not competition." — The Last Delivery Driver

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