JOSEPH URO DSKY
Yeah, if he refuses.
Decides that th e pay is slll all and wo n't go?
Or that th e Go lden Age has arri ved.
No, seriously. If a trade lInio n ca lls a stri ke?
Democracy, aft er all .
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kn ow, Ge ntlemen Ministers? I d idn 't make th e record. Well , eith er
the police will be ca lled in , or th e bosses will be cut in to th e deal. True to life,
after all .
N-yes. Technology.
Main th ing, automatica ll y.
But, then, opti ons arc limi ted, too.
Take for instance th e birthrate.
Not to menti on morta li ty.
On the whole, the needs.
Both the needs and th e ab ili ty.
Pity they never thought of computer before.
Why, they did . T he state, fo r insta nce. Esse nti ally it 's Ju st a version o f o ne, isn't
it. Only a cumbe rsome o ne. You ca n' t plug it in and go to LUbeck
Th e
government, to say th e least. Politi ca l systems of all sorts. Not to mention parti es.
And democracy?
And democracy, too. Simply takes more space.
And no automatics. Nonstop indi vidualislll . Every th ing by hand.
There, there. Not rea lly eve rythi ng. Taxes, fo r instance, arc automati c.
But that's taxes.
And elections. Also automati c.
Automatic, no. Peri odi c.
You mean rhythmi c?
Rhythmic and statisti c.
Practically arithmetically.
N-yes. And yet if th ey overthrow . .. all th e sa llle ... if the masses .
In the first place, th ere is a stadium for that.
Well, not the masses , th en. If th e army rebels ...
