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pp 9-43, direct link: https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v27n01_1941-03_Gorgon776_starhome/page/n7/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v27n01_19

• gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
  Unamerican of Heinlein but easier on mobile https://knigorub.com/116529-logic-of-empire/page-1.html https://knigorub.com/116529-logic-of-empire/page-1.html >Decades later, while there is still an abundance of land [& chatbots], this [IT serf] market remains because the colony itself has quotas to meet and debts to repay and cannot spare the resources to develop local industries to make the machines itself, yet free labor still then does not have to bid its price down enough to out-compete [serf] labor.
  • 082349872349872 1y ago
    https://barykin-pin-up.ru/#/i/kniga-luchshaya-podruga https://barykin-pin-up.ru/#/i/kniga-luchshaya-podruga
    • gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
      Yeah, that'd be an excellent use of taxes (but still unamerican)
    • gsf_emergency_2 1y ago
      https://www.respublika.lt/lt/naujienos/pasaulis/kitos_pasaulio_naujienos/trojos_arklio_strategija/ https://www.respublika.lt/lt/naujienos/pasaulis/kitos_pasaul... Google translate on desktop didn't seem to work for this one but I suspect you might manage Edit: "If This Goes On--" was the story that got me into Heinlein.. I'd started on "Number of the Beast" but that was too long..
      • 082349872349872 1y ago
        I don't, but one could argue that even this author's vision of that particular institution is far too inclusive of the subaltern: 兄弟如手足，妻子如衣服。 衣服破，尚可縫；手足斷，安可續？