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[A middle-aged man in a blue work coat. He has a gentle face and a docile manner.\u00a0He speaks softly, as if afraid.]<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThere was barely any work at the workshop so, when the order came in, well, it was\u00a0a relief.<\/p>\n

According to the specs, the client wanted us to build a very sophisticated piece, so complex it\u00a0would take at least six months to complete. In other words, six months of very\u00a0profitable labor.<\/p>\n

The specs didn\u2019t clarify what kind of machine our piece would be a part of, and\u00a0even though\u00a0I was curious, I got so busy setting up\u00a0production\u00a0that I soon forgot. Besides, this kind of secrecy is not unheard of in our business.\u00a0Industrial espionage, pending patents, all good reasons for the client not to share\u00a0the final design with us.<\/p>\n

But then, halfway into the project, we started lagging behind schedule\u00a0and I had to look for extra hands in order to make the delivery date.<\/p>\n

I called my\u00a0friends at other shops and was surprised to find out they were also looking for temporary workers. I\u00a0soon realized every workshop in town was\u00a0slammed\u00a0building parts for this “mystery machine,” as some of the guys called it.<\/p>\n

I was tempted to ask my colleagues if they too found it unsettling that we were all\u00a0building pieces for a machine we knew nothing about. But, why\u00a0question a job that had brought us all months of employment and profit? No one\u00a0likes a party pooper\u2026<\/p>\n

So I just paid my employees overtime and production eventually got back on schedule. Months later, we completed the piece right on time.<\/p>\n

The same night we shipped it out, we threw a party to celebrate. Believe it or not,\u00a0some employees even cried; that\u2019s how attached we all had become to the piece.<\/p>\n

A few weeks later, without warning, the authorities deployed a gigantic machine\u00a0into the streets that, with one clean sweep, annihilated thousands of protesters.<\/p>\n

No one would ever admit it, but deep down, most of us knew what kind of machine our\u00a0parts would eventually help create.<\/p>\n

Although, why deny it\u2026 Making them brought us such happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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