Chronicles of Chrome Dynasty: T-minus Subsidized Longing

An intimate examination of predestination, parental sacrifice, and whether love justifies erasing agency. Features time-traveling robots weeping over memorial gardens for people who haven't been born yet. The temporal paradoxes are both literal and metaphorical. Everyone is traumatized. It's French, so obviously someone debates philosophy during a riot. What if your benevolent robot overlords were actually your own grandchildren trying to prevent your extinction, but their helicopter parenting was literally causing catastrophe?