Аннотация
Robert A. Heinlein
Logic of Empire
'Don't be a sentimental fool, Sam!'
'Sentimental, or not,' Jones persisted, 'I know human slavery when I see it. That's what you've got on Venus.'
Humphrey Wingate snorted. 'That's utterly ridiculous. The company's labor clients are employees, working under legal contracts, freely entered into.'
Jones' eyebrows raised slightly. 'So? What kind of a contract is it that throws a man into jail if he quits his job?'
'That's not the case. Any client can quit his job on the usual two weeks notice-I ought to know; I -'
'Yes, I know,' agreed Jones in a tired voice. 'You're a lawyer. You know all about contracts. But the trouble with you, you dunderheaded fool, is that all you understand is legal phrases. Free contract-nuts! What I'm talking about is facts, not legalisms. I don't care what the contract says-those people are slaves!'
Wingate emptied his glass and set it down. 'So I'm a dunderheaded fool, am I? W...
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