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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 9 The Palliative
The data was undeniable.
Henry stood before the main display in the community center and watched the Tiered Truth System sort humanity into three clean categories.
Clean categories were dangerous. He knew that now.
Level Three: Full Transparency. Eight percent of the population.
Median income: one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. College education: ninety-four percent. Criminal record: almost none. Mostly people with money, lawyers, stable families, clean paperwork, and lives that could survive being seen.
Level Two: Standard Transparency.
Seventy-five percent.
The middle. People with enough stability to disclose some truth, but not enough power to enjoy it.
Level One: Privacy Mode. Seventeen percent.
Forty million people.
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