Bread and Circuses

Unwanted men, we need you to curb the welfare Amazons The editor who wrote the headline did a poor job comprehending the essay, which is worth reading.

On a related note, I’m not sure whether I was unable to read the sequels to Beggars in Spain because they simply aren’t as good as the first one, whether the imagined underclass dialect of English was too linguistically improbable and distracting, or because the vision of a future with a massive unproductive and aristocratic underclass dependent on bread and circuses was simply too depressing. The first book in the series is required reading for hard SF fans, though.

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