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Posted on 02/15/2026 11:13:18 AM PST by algore
The AI board of the "Global Efficiency Initiative" met in a room chilled to the exact temperature required to prevent server overheating.
Before them sat the "Problem": three million geographically displaced persons currently idling in high-cost transit camps, consuming taxpayer-funded protein paste and occupying valuable real estate.
The CEO of the world’s leading robotics firm stood, his smile as polished as his latest prototype.
"Ladies and Gentlemen," he began, "why deport them when we can download them? I propose the Kinetic Harvest Initiative."
Their consensus plan was elegant. Since the new Optimus Gen 6 robots required billions of hours of "natural movement data" to learn how to pick strawberries, scrub toilets, and stack shelves without falling over, the displaced would no longer be "unwanted." They would be rebranded as Bio-Instructional Assets.
Instead of a border wall, the government would build "Gait-Capture Corridors." Every displaced person would be fitted with a high-fidelity haptic suit. For twelve hours a day, they would perform the very manual labor the robots were destined to take over. Every stumble, every precise finger movement, every weary sigh would be recorded by sub-millimeter sensors and fed directly into the cloud.
"By the time a migrant has picked ten thousand peaches," the CEO explained, "the robot will know how to do it better than a human ever could. We aren't just housing them; we are using their very souls—or at least their motor skills—to build their replacements."
The "Modest" benefit was twofold:
Economic Zero: Once a person’s movement data was "fully harvested" (usually after eighteen months of repetitive labor), the robot they trained would be sold to cover the cost of their "repatriation." The migrant would be sent home with a small digital token and a pat on the back, having literally worked themselves out of a future.
Moral Ease: The public could sleep soundly. They weren't "ignoring" the displaced; they were "upskilling" the global infrastructure.
"It is the ultimate recycling program," the CEO concluded. "We take the muscle of the Old World to fuel the silicon of the New. Once the robot can walk like them, we simply don't need them to walk here anymore."
The board cheered. It was efficient. It was high-tech. Best of all, it turned the most vulnerable people on earth into the very "ice" that would eventually freeze them out of the economy forever.
10 years later:
A boardroom in Austin smelled faintly of ozone.
On the wall-sized screen, a map of the world pulsed with red dots—clusters of "Geographically Displaced Assets" (GDAs) idling in camps from the Darien Gap to the Mediterranean.
The Chairman stood, smoothing his black turtleneck. "The GEI was too soft," he declared. "People want results. They want the Greatest Of All Time. They want the G.O.A.T."
He clicked a remote. A video played of a sleek, silver Tesla Optimus walking with a suspiciously human-like limp.
"The problem," the Chairman continued, "is that robots are still... robotic.
They lack the 'grit' of a person who has walked three thousand miles for a better life. So, we stop seeing these people as a burden and start seeing them as Biological Training Modules."
Under the G.O.A.T. Protocol, the unwanted would no longer be deported. That was expensive and bad for PR. Instead, they would be "onboarded" into the Global Optimization phase.
Each migrant was issued a high-fidelity haptic exoskeleton—the "GOAT-Suit."
For twelve hours a day, the "Assets" performed the tasks the robots hadn't mastered yet: the delicate pluck of a bruised heirloom tomato, the intuitive skip over a puddle on a construction site, the gentle lift of an elderly patient in a care home.
Every twitch of a muscle, every micro-adjustment for balance, and every weary sigh was captured by 10,000 sensors per suit. This data was "harvested" in real-time, streamed into the cloud to perfect the neural networks of the next ten million robots.
"Phase Two," the Chairman whispered, "is the Asset Transition. Once an individual has performed 65536 'Perfect Harvests' or 'Sanitary Cycles,' their kinetic essence has been fully digitized. The robot is now legally them.
At that point, the human is technically and legally redundant— a 'Legacy Shell' if you will."
"It’s not displacement," the Chairman concluded to a standing ovation. "It’s a Kinetic Handshake. We take their struggle and turn it into Silicon. They are the GOATs—the Greatest Of All Training data."
We will always value their sacrifice.
The red dots on the map begin to turn green.
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Anyone else see a problem?
These illegal aliens from Africa, Middle East and S Asia have no desire to work. That was the whole point of their invading the West.
Yes but can the robots siphon a million $ from the feds by opening a Learing Center?
Well written, algore.
What to do with the illegals when every last ounce is wrung out of them?
Plants need fertilizer. Waste not want not.
Something like 30 or 40 years ago, the new tech idea was the burger-flipping robot. Mostly it worked, but it didn't really catch on. Why? Maybe because robots don't buy hamburgers.
Andrew Yang revisited...re-energized for 2028!
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