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The Fountainhead, also by Rand.
Also look into the Unincorporated Trilogy by Dani and Eytan Collin.
You should check out The Unincorporated Man before pushing that idea too far. Not saying it's precisely the same, but check it out. Really good book, for what it's worth!
This is part of the premise of The Unincorporated Man. VR has been outlawed because it is so real, people get addicted to it and just waste away, like heroin junkies.
> What if multiple people assist in that production? How can it possibly be exclusive then? Furthermore, this doesn't really logically follow your premises and is a very intense source of controversy.
Perhaps every person should be incorporated at birth, with the parents retaining a share (say - 20%?) and therefore benefiting either through dividends of future earnings, or through the sale of their interest in the future earnings of their child?
(I'm reading a book right now where this is the central theme. The Unincorporated Man - loving it so far)
There is a book called The Unincorporated Man (amazon link) that explores this very idea, along with some other very interesting ideas.
Wow. More than 25k a year for school. There's a really great book called The Unincorporated Man about a future where, to pay for one's education, people sell shares in themselves to corporations, friends, or family.
It's sold as a rational self-interest thing. It's your 2% stake in your little brother that keeps you from killing him, it makes people more cooperative if your success financially benefits them. And of course the corporation that owns a controlling share in you will employ you where they make the best use of your talents. In the book, people work their whole lives to be able to buy back controlling interest in their lives, and people talk about their 'buy outs' the way we talk about early retirement.
It doesn't sound to me like America is all that far away from that reality. Student loans are basically a form of indentured servitude. At least if a given company sponsored your education, you'd be guaranteed a job.
Your discussion reminds me a lot of a book my brother was telling me about. The only difference was that it wasn't marriages that were incorporated, but people.
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