When on this disc I first landed,
\nI thought it most underhanded:
\nFor lo! no schedules here to see–
\nThis land had turned post-scarcity.<\/p>\n
Through forests deep and brambles wild,
\nI hustled, frightened like a child.
\nNo products to be in demand–
\nA foul and crushing reprimand.<\/p>\n
Said I, “I’ve lost my only job!”
\nAnd, like a fool, began to sob;
\nOh, lonely economist, I!
\nI could not trace curves of supply.<\/p>\n
What purpose could I hope to find
\nIn bleak, passionless, daily grinds
\nWhose labors all must prove for naught,
\nWith money now but all forgot?<\/p>\n
Then, to my mind, a thought descends–
\nWe met like long and loyal friends;
\nA mad passion seized on my brain,
\nCame roaring through like some great train.<\/p>\n
And through the tunnel came the light,
\nMy eyes soon dancing with delight–
\n“Aha!” I cried, and mourning quit,
\nA man now seized in trembling fit.<\/p>\n
Now, bathed in numbers, here sit I,
\nWatching with an all-seeing eye
\nAs workers toil on planets far,
\nThrough mud and mire, through muck and tar.<\/p>\n
And I bear a fond relation
\nTo these strange and foreign nations
\nWhose curves I trace for days on end,
\nWhose demand schedules are my friends.<\/p>\n
And here sit I, upon this disc,
\nFree from troubles, and free from risk.
\n(Indeed, most everything is free–
\nThank goodness for post-scarcity!)<\/p>\n
– Xor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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