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'''Career chips''' are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent career. People are given the chip for the job they're best at. According to {{Leela}} in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]," it is against the law to not have a career chip implanted, or to have it removed, and the punishment for such an act is to be "fired out of a cannon into the sun". In the same episode, [[Smitty]] suggests that people who take such actions are labeled as "job deserters." Despite what is presumably established in the television pilot, there have been numerous instances when career chips have been removed and implanted without any such legal consequences, suggesting that either this law was amended shortly after {{Fry}} was [[cryo-tube|cryogenically unfrozen]], or that it is just never enforced.
'''Career chips''' are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent line of work. People are given the chip for the job they are best at. According to {{Leela}} in "[[Space Pilot 3000]]," the career chip is mandated by the law, and anyone who rejects it will be "fired out of a cannon into the sun". In the same episode, [[Smitty]] states that people who remove their career chips are labeled as "job deserters." Despite these two characters' warnings, though, there have been numerous instances in which career chips have been removed without any such legal consequences. Two possible in-universe explanations are that the laws surrounding it were amended shortly after {{Fry}} was [[cryo-tube|cryogenically unfrozen]] or, more likely, that these same laws are just never enforced.


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Revision as of 23:41, 29 December 2016

Career chip
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First appearance"Space Pilot 3000" (1ACV01)
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Career chips are microchips implanted into people's palms which assign them a permanent line of work. People are given the chip for the job they are best at. According to Leela in "Space Pilot 3000," the career chip is mandated by the law, and anyone who rejects it will be "fired out of a cannon into the sun". In the same episode, Smitty states that people who remove their career chips are labeled as "job deserters." Despite these two characters' warnings, though, there have been numerous instances in which career chips have been removed without any such legal consequences. Two possible in-universe explanations are that the laws surrounding it were amended shortly after Fry was cryogenically unfrozen or, more likely, that these same laws are just never enforced.

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