Created Sunday 08 January 2023
The ecosystem. Those who comprise the ecosystem of the Anthroppocene, often taking on the roles that other animals did before it.
Polinators
Walkers
Dog walkers
(Both their dogs and they) are paid/fed in "Meal," a nutritionally-complete confection made from the cheapest & easiest ingredients.
Like most Primary Producers, Walkers are issued the basics to perform their job, a job they are expected to do to maintain those in-coming resources. They are given nothing else (no salary), and nothing but their job is expected of them (no taxes). But that does mean that they are on their own to, say, have a place to live or clothes to wear. He's issued dog food and a dog. A very good dog, actually, and a bit more dog food than they need. Sometimes a lot more. Do, they sell dog food on the System's Market.
The Hostage
Sure, why not?
The dogger who finds memories. Even---no, especially---the collective.
There is always one to find
Watchers
Along with the Walkers, the most fundamental (and thus basic) level of social structuring (yeah, essentially law enforcement) at the social level of the Anthrope (is that what it'd be called? That's nearly as cheesey as the stuff I write. (And as you may have noticed already, I've never met a cheese yet I didn't like.)
And they are in fact given a lot of leeway by higher levels of social structuralists: Even though humans---being the foundation on which the Antropocene is built---must loose some autonomy, I think there'd be huymans who want to make sure humans have that at even the most basic level. Outside of families, the Anthropocen grows out of interpersonal interactions.
Oh, but every once in a while, Watchers and Walkers will see something they can't explain. Some sorts of phantoms in the anthropic dark. Animals evolving in the Anthrope (O.K., I'm already getting sick of that word) that weren't there before. And don't seem to have come from anywhere we know. New life in the new age. Reliant on us, and---if it's like most living things---hoping it can end up being a long-term parasite.