D.E.B.T.

Worker ID #4034: Incompatible. Returned.
Worker ID #4066: Incompatible. Returned.
Worker ID #4099: Incompatible. Returned.

System Error 404
— Reconnected —

D.E.B.T. — Dimensional Exchange & Binding Terminal
Status: Recalibrating for Low-Cost / High-Efficiency Labor

Worker ID #4120: Failed to stabilise. Returned.

D.E.B.T. did not sigh.
It did not hesitate. It only continued.

Worker ID #4138: Unreachable.
Worker ID #4140: Declined contract. 

Penalty applied.

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 D.E.B.T. Application Installation: Complete.

Worker ID #4141: Located.
Worker ID #4141: Awake.
Worker ID #4141: Exhausted.
Worker ID #4141: Financial distress confirmed.

Compatibility recalculated.

Worker ID #4141: Optimal.

Contract generated. Assignment pending.
Payment bound to completion.

Somewhere in the modern world, a small phone screen glowed blue in the dark. And because rent was due, and debt did not wait, and kindness had already cost too much.

Worker ID #4141 was dispatched.