Yet the short resists cynicism. It grants tenderness in small, stubborn ways: a hand on a colleague’s shoulder; a shared cigarette outside a fluorescent building; a whispered joke that lands like a lifeline. These moments suggest that networks of care persist even inside systems designed to extract productivity. The true moral complexity emerges here: people navigate these systems with agency, compromise, love, and calculation—sometimes in the same breath.
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