[kevin_thibedeau]

Reminds me of a short story from 30 years ago that centered around fast food workers who were micromanaged by an AI directing every daily activity.

[extr]

For anyone wondering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)

It's got a happy ending actually.

[WJW]

It has a happy ending for the protagonist, and IIRC only because he inherited an Australian passport. Everyone else in the USA was completely stuck into being meat robots for the overseer AIs.

[JohnFen]

So, not a happy ending.

[willcipriano]

Depends on if you are a protagonist or not.

[XorNot]

Depends more on whether you support progressive social policies though (I'm a lot less confident Australia would go in like it did, but I'd like to think it could - we did Medicare in the 70s after all).

[toomuchtodo]

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manna_(novel)