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Right, but to be eligible for the return trip you'd first need to pay the loan you took to go there by working as an indentured servant and buying your oxygen a
by facorreia 4y ago
Right, but to be eligible for the return trip you'd first need to pay the loan you took to go there by working as an indentured servant and buying your oxygen and food at company-set prices, right?
- Reki 4y agoWhat, you think people should be able to breathe for free?
- HideousKojima 4y agoLife imitates art, you ever seen Total Recall?
- Tade0 4y agoOr Spaceballs for that matter? Wouldn't be the first idea inspired by that film.
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- shagie 4y agoPart of the plot of the episode Oxygen (Series 10, episode 5) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_(Doctor_Who) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_(Doctor_Who) It's an interesting watch (especially with the context of labor relations in mind).
- stonogo 4y agoA scene in Heinlein's The Cat Who Walks Through Walls has the protagonist sternly lecturing a ruffian on the importance of paying for air in a domed city on the moon. I still can't tell if Heinlein was serious; a later scene has the same character demanding a transplanted foot be cut off because he felt it indebted him.
- mrguyorama 4y agoHeinlein might be the kind of person to genuinely believe that. He also was the kind of person who would write a book as an excuse to write a manifesto. Starship Troopers was just him bitching about "kids these days"