Young people rent their bodies to the elderly via neural chips, creating a new economic underclass whose autonomy is literally suspended during working hours, testing where the boundary between employment and slavery lies.
Models gig economy exploitation taken to its logical extreme, relevant to surrogacy ethics, organ market debates, and the commodification of bodily autonomy.
Domains: Economics and Resource AllocationEthics and Philosophy of TechnologyMedicine and Human Enhancement
Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyEthical dilemma
Outcomes: DystopianCautionary
Tags: body-rentalneural-chipsautonomy-commodificationgig-economy-extreme