2026-08-24 DB-087
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Strip Commentary

Reading It

The Oracle announces emotional labor is now tracked, and Rollo asks how. The answer -- 'Smile frequency' -- reduces an entire dimension of human experience to a countable behavior. You've worked at a place where 'culture fit' was measured by how often you laughed in meetings.

Deeper Read

When the system tracks feelings, it doesn't measure emotion -- it measures performance of emotion. The smile becomes the product, not the feeling behind it.