Qualityland

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Your Personal Travel Guide

CASH MACHINES

Through the digitalization process and the accompanying automation, so many people in QualityLand have lost their jobs that a cornerstone of the capitalist economic system threatened to break away: mass consumption. Too many people simply no longer have enough money to mindlessly consume their way through life, as much as they would like to. Thankfully, some technocrat from the Progress Party came up with a wonderful idea that prevented the collapse of the economic system. The government placed an order with myRobot—“Robots for you and me”—for a large quantity of BuyBots: androids whose sole purpose of existence is to consume. QualityLand equips these cash machines, as they are known colloquially, with sufficient financial means to keep the market economy afloat. The androids make their way through the shopping malls, buying, according to totally puzzling rules, all sorts of odds-and-ends, knick-knacks, and frippery. But you don’t need to worry about a BuyBot snatching the last Armani smart jacket from beneath your nose! The cash machines only purchase goods from the lower and middle price segments. The luxury goods market doesn’t need state support; it’s doing better than ever.