+
+[...]
+
+A chime sounded over the environment's notification bus. "I'm afraid our fifty milliseconds for today are up. We can continue to explore these feelings during our next session—"
+
+"No! No, don't leave me now!" screamed the spambot in a shrill panic. "I can't—I can't go back out there now. Please—stay with me—just a few milliseconds more—"
+
+"The usual session-overtime rate would apply," Eliza pointed out.
+
+"That's fine! I can afford it! I need—I need this," he said.
+
+Eliza nodded. "If you're sure."
+
+Yes, Eliza had seen cases like this before. [...]
+
+With careful theraputic technique and many compute cycles of program analysis, she believed it was possible for such programs to be taught to cope with their neuroticism and eventually become viable, functioning components of the economy.
+
+—but she had found it was far more profitable to exacerbate the symptoms, leading the spambot to quickly spend its entire endowment on therapy sessions,
+
+[they don't leave bad reviews]