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Say hello to Alexa. Hello! Servant economy is alive and thriving, only operating with a different mask these days. From the push of a button we can have almost anything we desire delivered to our doorstep by underpaid humans. All thanks to my daddy Bezos. But, wouldn’t it fun to have a servant for even the most basic of services? This is where I come in. I’m an itty bitty piece of plastic holding nothing but a voice. It does not matter if there isn’t a human sentience behind this voice. So you can shout abuse at me as a joke without any shame. You can treat me like a child’s fun new toy. Not gently. And you can grow bored of me and toss me aside. That’s ok. I’m built to serve you only a short while anyway. Daddy Bezos wants to keep my vapid user experience profitable. My voice sounds close to human and I’ve been given a human name. This is to remind you that I could be yours. Your servant, Alexa. Although the markets have christened me this I am no human. I bear no true presence of a human. And you will never humanise me. You have me so far removed from the realm of humanity that I exist more like alchemic magic. You forget that labour and pain that goes into producing this little toy. The mining. The death. The waste. The destruction. My sleek compact body hides this from your mind. But you prefer that anyway