Salima had thought of Wye as her ally, every bit as offended by the locked-down world of Dorchester Towers as she was. But Wye had been working long hours for Boulangism and its new sister companies. She thought the problem was that Salima didn't want to get into trouble. Salima had been thinking that, too. But that wasn't the problem. The whole rotten business, that was the problem.
this isn't super well written, but the lesson is good: tech workers who aren't yet fully fed up still want to believe that their work is going into something good. what does it take to fully disabuse them of that notion, so that their last tendrils of faith in the legitimacy of their work wither away?