>The one thing you'd think it gives them is freedom, but they all pretty much end up working til they die so I don't know. From "Requiem" by Robert Heinlein, 1

>The one thing you'd think it gives them is freedom, but they all pretty much end up working til they die so I don't know. From "Requiem" by Robert Heinlein, 1940 <https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v24n05_1940-01_dtsg0318/page/n79/mode/2up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v24n05_1940-01_dtsg03...>: >"What? You are old D. D.? But, hell's bells, you own a big slice of the company yourself; you ought to be able to do anything you like, rules or no rules." >"That is not an unusual opinion, son, but it is incorrect. Rich men aren't more free than other men; they are less free—a good deal less free. I tried to do what you suggest, but the other directors would not permit me. They are afraid of losing their franchise. It costs them a good deal in—uh—political contact expenses to retain it, as it is." >"Well, I'll be a— Can you tie that, Mac? A guy with lots of dough, and he can't spend it the way he wants to."