Substack writer Margaret Anna Alice coined a useful word for this era of Public-Private-Philanthropic Partnerships: philanthropath—the Gates-type figure who launders cold commercial greed into a façade of altruistic compassion, with plenty of PR help. These actors do not only target the propagandised “sheeple”; they can also exploit people in the “Freedom Movement,” where once a stranger is seen as “on the same page,” ethical scrutiny and due diligence are easily dropped. Trust becomes shorthand for being “awake” to tyranny—sometimes fatally so. This six-part fictional story, created by the above authors with some structural help from AI and drawing on lived experience, observation and imagination, pushes the philanthropath concept to its limits. Margaret Anna Alice has written about the shame of being scammed and turning the tables on her perpetrator; whether the story’s protagonist manages the same reversal remains open. The narrative ends with branching choices for readers and serves as a warning: in an a…