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You have decided to <span class="mu-s">spend the day with your son</span>- while instructing the AI to give you some light duties while with him. Take your Son to work day. While not able to perform the full gambit of your duties with him in tow- averting his eyes from the cruelty of dictatorship and the tedium of financial and military spending- you can still perform some basic tasks. Perhaps he can learn something. Jemm seems to approve.
You first stay at home for a while longer to enjoy a breakfast with the whole family. You discuss your plans, and then walk the safe city streets. You visit the cafe with your baby boy, and talk to the locals about their problems- besides the unanimous praise, it's always good to speak to those on the “ground floor” of any industry or department of the Hegemony. Something your AI system does for you- but this face to face interaction can still be enlightening.
It's very pleasant.
After just a few hours, the little guy is tuckered out. It's been a busy and exciting day. You unwind at your Myymish home with Jemm, doing some light correspondence with various heads of state. Exactly as you expected- this single day made <span class="mu-i">no appreciable difference</span>. Jemm is much warmer with you for the following week, but soon grows distant again as your difference of lifestyle and only connection being your biological offspring forces you apart again. Your son- while having a great time today- will only remember some of this as he grows older and his brain and body become more developed and absorb new, more useful patterns to the Hegemony and his potential for Supremacy- if he has it in him at all. While not able to perform your full duties- your schedule is simply shifted back one day in the calendar year, your AI automating as many tasks as it can. The changes or loss of budget is a pocketful of marks- advancement in science delayed is measured in estimated seconds or hours- not days or weeks. In the end, it was just one day of your life, so unimportant that its total value cannot be measured or correlated to any possible outcome of the future. Just one day. While Jemm may think it was for your son, really, it was for you.
