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    Local man embezzles $20,000 meant to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine.

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Orphan crushing machine operator: "If I don't do it, someone else will"

Orphan crushing proponent: "Why should I pay for orphans not to be crushed??"

There's money to be made on arbitration of orphan crushing! If I don't do it someone else will.

Introducing “The Automatic Orphan Crusher 9000” complete with conveyor belt fed chutes and titanium jaws, no orphan can escape! Just place a piece of candy…”

Does it have AI?

That would be part of our Orphan Industries plan for managing output of your 9000s on the industrial floor. Sure. Monitor throughput and TTK right there from the app.

there is no trolley

This framing is disingenuous. We're meant to say "tear down the orphan-crushing machine!" But in this case there's no machine, only human mortality. You're substituting a simple question ("why are we crushing orphans?") for a complex one ("who should pay for poor children's healthcare?")

Also, the scale seems much larger than $20k.

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