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The Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
Excellent tongue-in-cheek story pillories the Consumer Society. In the story, robots and corporations produce so many consumer goods, that the measure of wealth is how FEW goods you are force-fed during the course of your days, weeks and months. Select an invention:
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