Sir Ian Bowler, MP, takes time out of his busy schedule to explain to the plebs what just happened to them.
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October 21, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Jock
Funny Sir Ian should mention “selling yourselves to the highest bidder”.
I’m just ploughing through last years Prometheus Award winner for libertarian science-fiction, “The Unincorporated Man”, set in a future where everyone is incorporated at birth and sells bits of their future earning power and so on to others for investment in things like education, and they then spend most of their lives trying to buy back enough stock to give themselves majority control over themselves.
Just perhaps, on the basis that equity is slightly fairer than debt, there’s a germ of an idea in there!
October 21, 2010 at 5:19 pm
Nathaniel Tapley
How odd, I’ve been working on a short story with a very similar central mechanic. That there are a number of global corporations to whom our parents sell the right to patent our DNA at birth, and that they then provide all of our health care, and social provision but retain the rights to exploit derivative products based on our DNA…
October 21, 2010 at 6:24 pm
Jock
The quote at the top of the first chapter is from Friedman’s “<a href="http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iCRk066ybDAC&lpg=PP1&ots=Qm4dAyUXiP&dq=capitalism%20and%20freedom&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=counterpart%20for%20education&f=false"Capitalism and Freedom” where he suggests this sort of “investment” in individuals.
October 21, 2010 at 6:25 pm
Jock
I’ll try that again!
The quote at the top of the first chapter is from Friedman’s “Capitalism and Freedom” where he suggests this sort of “investment” in individuals.
October 21, 2010 at 8:52 pm
Nathaniel Tapley
I’ll have a read…
October 25, 2010 at 8:33 am
jimi
what happens if someone defaults on their loan?
October 27, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Suchmaschine
Hello. Great job. I did not expect this on a Wednesday. This is a great story. Thanks!
November 14, 2010 at 8:12 am
NoOne
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