"The ship, Let There Be Light...was a cruiser, one of the new models which could accelerate most of the way and reach even Jupiter in a couple of weeks." (III, p. 150)
The Psychotechnic History is still in that early period of innovations in interplanetary flight. On Earth, there are technological advances with social consequences:
"'My father was one of the intellectual routineer class which was displaced by the Second Industrial Revolution, though he never joined the Humanists. He didn't like living off citizen's allowance and odd jobs - called it a handout.'" (p. 152)
It is not a handout. It is his right. Technology that replaces labour should serve the interests of everyone in society.
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