Sometime in the future:

  While inventing his time machine, Daryl stumbled upon the multiverse.

  He observed many versions of himself worse or better off.

  Daryl enjoyed his home life, but the world around him he found scary and tragic, so using an advanced AI, he hacked into global census data, criminal histories, and education records of everyone worldwide.

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  He developed algorithms to swap ‘undesirables’ with highly educated counterparts.

  Years later …

  Daryl desperately sought an alt-universe to escape killer robots, rogue AI, orbital lasers, fusion bombs, EMPs, cloned militants, teleportation, and time-traveling assassins, but alas, the multiverse too was corrupted.