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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9558942" data-attributes="member: 42856">Agree, though he might not even be this manipulative. At some point in the past (200+ years), they used to do an immensely important task (possibly involving currency exchange), with minting a secondary task, then they got cut-off and the Supervisor didn't update his distribution of the daily task. They crunch numbers, account for things, that have no relevancy anymore, but the programming of the Supervisor doesn't allow him to say "well, folks, you can stop, what we've been doing doesn't matter anymore". This planet is actually full of bullshitjobs (and a few people overseeing life support droids and repairing things).Since he knows that some jobs (those maybe linked to the Great Work) no longer can be done (if they did data analysis of galactic economy, and they are now lacking in data to analyze), he is also responsible for assigning jobs to the kids as they graduate. So maybe there is no longer anyone actually working on the Great Work (they are all dead by now), with everyone being directed to this kind of jobs (where they determine the optimal tax level for a planet with a Tatooine-like economy based on historical records, for example, or other modeling task that doesn't really need new data).People all know they contribute to the Great Work but no one actually knows what it is anymore, and think their colleagues, or other people somewhere, are actively "on it". The supervisor kept "minting" an activity because it was quite self-contained and there was no reason to stop it. And now they avec thousands of vault full of money.</blockquote>

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