SystemSearcher
"I fought the door and the door won"
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Yeah, that. Thank you for this write up, I wanted to point this out but couldn't come up with a good enough way to do so.Following only the last few pages of discussing there is something I must misunderstand: Why is Slutlife as an entity considered to be supposed to be unquestionably "good" and/or beholden to a Earth-style first-world legal system?
To clarify: SL is the sort of organization that makes money off of people being literally mindbroken on live television, enslaved, and/or tortured in various ways. This is only a part of what they do, but these are things happening within the Slutlife continuum unless they are changed in a very major way. They are also an extremely powerful multiversal entity that is only beholden to the rules of the even larger shadow cabal which is probably one of the, if not the, most powerful organization in the entire known multiverse.
Now the clue of the show is that people choose to be subjected to all this and that they indeed choose their own fate. This is the big draw of the (part of?) the show Taylor has stumbled upon. I won't contemplate the possible reasons for this, but there are many.
This has several consequences, such as trying to be "nice" about people enslaving themselves and making the whole situation bearable. Also, offering rewards so people sign up and increasing them, offering rewards both exotic and mundane, hiring personable managers etc etc.
We have also seen the limits of this niceness: Taylor being tricked into it goes against company policy, but only on the level of perhaps an employee being very rude to a customer: "You have our deepest apology for the unpleasant experience with our store. The employee has been reprimanded, and we would be ever so happy to hand you over to a different one. Also, would you like some store credit to make up for the situation? What, you want to cancel your shipment? We are sorry, that is not currently possible."
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Individual employees may be genuinely good, but the actual organisation as a whole most certainly isn't. At most it leans towards brighter shades of grey.