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The Truth About Lying
Lower income. Higher medical debt. Criminal records. Immigration issues. mental-health diagnoses. custody disputes. domestic violence histories. old warrants. unpaid fines. false documents. true stories that could destroy them.
The system had not lied.
That was the problem.
A woman stepped beside him.
“Maya Chen,” she said. “Berkeley. Sociology.” Henry glanced at her.
“You’re studying us?”
“I’m studying what you built.”
“That sounds less flattering.”
“It is.”
She pointed at the display.
“The people who can afford transparency are being rewarded for it. The people who can’t are being punished for needing privacy.”
Henry looked back at the numbers.
“Level One exists to protect them.”
“No,” Maya said. “Level One protects the system from having to deal with them.”
He turned.
She held his look without blinking. Then she pulled up another graph. Healthcare access.
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