Incentives drive populations
Crossings
They came over on a boat. It wasn't official. There was no dreaming where they came from. And, who wants to live in a place without dreams.
But the dreams were finite? When they arrived one less, no less, nobody had any to share. There were only so many tickets. They were shunned.
Having a piece of the pie was their dream and there was no dream without pie.
So they ate. That was the only way.
At least, that’s what he thought.
“With the currency ticker restored to normal function, the yen showed renewed strength, advancing against the dollar in microdecimal increments every sextillionth of a second. This was good. This was fine and right. It thrilled him to think in zeptoseconds and to watch the numbers in their unrelenting run. The stock ticker was also good. He watched the major issues breeze by and felt purified in nameless ways to see prices spiral into lubricious plunge. Yes, the effect on him was sexual, cunnilingual in partic-ular, and he let his head fall back and opened his mouth to the sky and rain.” Cosmopolis
“Once he had tried to get fired by recommending suicide in his column. All that Shrike had said was: “Remember, please, that your job is to increase the circulation of our paper. Suicide, it is only reasonable to think, must defeat this purpose.” Miss Lonelyhearts
“When the price of wheat was high, opium production went down. When the price of wheat was low, opium production went up.” Missionaries
“My town is a factory for the production of human babies.” Earthlings
“Along similar lines I have this theory that all the leering and coveting and jacking off that happens in front of screens has turned them into libidinal tunnels.” Rejection
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