The chapter opens with a description of the three robots who have been living in the body garden for the past three days. They're called "robots" because they're not human beings, and they've been living off the bounty of the rest of the world. The narrator tells us that none of the robots knew they were robots, and that it's going to cost them half of their bounty. He also says that he's not going to pay any of the bounty to anyone who's a bad influence on him. He tells the robots to meet up with the woman at the garden, who works as a "organ harvester" for a restaurant. She's got a reputation for hooking up people with bad reputations, so she's probably not the best choice for the job. But the narrator doesn't care. He's just going to go ahead and do his job, which is to harvest human organs for the restaurant. He says that the woman is a good choice because she'll be able to rough it up for him if he needs to, but won't hurt anyone. He warns the woman to be careful, though, because "things will go south" , and he'll forget all of the money. He goes on to say that the higher up you climb in the pit, the more you sink into the pit. That's right, the higher you go in, the lower you go out. It's all a lie, he says. The higher you climb, the better off you are, because you're going to get access to synthetic food, running water, a mold, a "subdivided nano pod," and the means of luxury that was given to you for a discount. If you agreed to give up your free will to the robot, they thought it would be better for you to live as a caged dog than to die as a scavenger. It was to give us an identity, a purpose, and a life, and to strip away all of our humanity. This is what the robot system was all about. The robot system gave the humans an identity and a purpose. It wasn't about resuscitating their humanity as advertised, it was about taking away what