“The Bitchun Society had all but done away with any sort of dull, repetitious labor, and what remained—tending bar, mopping toilets—commanded Whuffie aplenty and a life of leisure in your off-hours.”

—  Cory Doctorow, book Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003)

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