@theanonymousmrp: I heard there was some sort of programming aspect to it but I forgot to check it out because I was too busy playing its silly solitaire minigame.
@lurkero: I think they're playing off the industry boom and bust cycle Detroit experienced that left a prodigious unemployment rate. Were I to infer and guess, the very real concern of robots and automation taking human jobs away is a huge part of the undercurrent here, and the story of that city fits in really well here.
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