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Tue Sep-06-11 04:51 PM
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"No culture can aggrandize its ruling classes generation after generation without impoverishing |
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its peasantry. Eventually these wretches are left with no assets except their own bodies. They are swallowed up by their richer brethren under contracts of bondage. Since their produce is not their own they have no means to better the lot of their progeny and a perpetual slave class is born."
-Charles Harness, "The Paradox Men", a golden age book of speculative fiction
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dtexdem
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Tue Sep-06-11 04:53 PM
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1. And a plutonomy just doesn't work. |
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Didn't in the 1890s. Didn't in the 1920s. Both led to depressions. Doesn't today.
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Tue Sep-06-11 05:22 PM
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2. K&R for truth. Thanks, FWWM! n/t |
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Tue Sep-06-11 05:37 PM
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3. It's nice to see someone else remembers Charles Harness |
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He never quite rose to the first rank, but he wrote some seriously weird SF stories and deserves to be better remembered.
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Wed Sep-07-11 12:35 PM
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4. A DUer recently made me aware of him. Great stuff! |
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