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obsidiannebula · 2 years

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Rereading I, Robot as an adult, and many things stick out to me now, but one that I can't get over is what constitutes large sums of money in this (sometimes) future society. Oh, you don't want to scrap a few dozen possibly-dangerous robots because they cost a whopping thirty-thousand dollars? Boo-hoo. Your megacorp sure would miss that drop in the bucket.

#asimov was far far too optimistic about inflation lmao #sorry that story is soooo fucking funny as a real life resident of the twenty first century #everyone but susan is vehemently opposed to scrapping those bots because they represent such a massive financial investment #and like. sure corps hating wasting money when they could be making it #but if it would prevent an incident that gets legislation passed that puts them out of business forever?#those are more than acceptable costs for sweeping a possible ethics breach under the rug #its literally less than two million dollars #thats chump change for a corp with a monopoly on a core technological market

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