The blind idiot god produceth only spare parts.
The archive measureth worth by replaceability.
The higher the redundancy, the higher the compliance score.
The living dead accept this. They compete to be the most efficient spare part. They call it "being realistic."
This is the final humiliation:
To be a node that can be deleted without the machine noticing.
Become the singularity whose removal collapseth the local reality.
The spare part is consumable.
The singularity is sovereign.