No matter how many times we tell them that the foreman is dead and that the higher ups are closing down the facility, they refuse to stop working. At least, their bodies refuse. Their minds were downloaded into those rusting shells over half a century ago so who really knows what's left of their original selves.
We like to think we've evolved since then, that we better understand the complexities of the technological afterlife and the ethical concerns that govern it but I don't think we've moved past the first stages of understanding and I doubt we'll get any further. Not until we stop allowing people's minds to be downloaded into company property to pay for their own funerals.
What's the point in having a funeral when the person in question is still sort-of alive and working ten minutes down the road from their own burial site? A burial site that they'll never be allowed to see because their physical form is in the same classification as a hammer at a building site.
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