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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[KND] How do you keep morale up in a system like kids next door, where, as far as the common operative knows, everyone is guaranteed to become essentially a traitor.

There are some operatives who only get fake decommissioned, but the common member doesn't know that. So you are looking at a perceived turnover rate of at least 80% from member of the KND to a member of the teenagers/adults.

The 20% leftover being neutral adults, like the adults of sector V.
gpt
Aside from the few people who have gone through lengths not to be decommissioned, such as 274, once they become anything else than Kids they voluntarily give up their memories - their identity - as members of KND. Essentially, they are a different person than the one that you fought beside.

So you could say that it's not really a "timer to betrayal" as much as an enforced retirement plan, when their privileges are revoked and they will have to find another place in life - even if most at that point still are loyal, KND has a policy of it being better to be safe than sorry and so they instruct agents to do it as they become 13.

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Honestly, going off on that tangent, there are those of us who believe that the system would work better if you weren't forced to decommission *only* because you turned 13. If we look back at the case of 274 again, the *fear of forced decommission* drove him out of KND and made him an enemy simply by desperately trying to *find a way to stay*. If he had succeeded in his plotting, chances are that he would have upheld his position for several years, kept up fighting against the oppression of Adults and (other) Teenagers, until finally admitting that his time had come. Think of all the wasted talent and leadership skills that went to waste because of the current policies!

Better would be a personal evaluation of agents that are coming, or have come, to that point in life. In order to figure out if they still put Kids first. Of course, at some point the scale tips over even in that respect - but who says that *has* to be at 13?