M & D. P sees AI and robots? "It's about work"---the late Alice Wellington

[Mark Kohut]

p. 291  "As the progress of Wax automata, by ones and twos, approaches,
provoking, daring Mason to bring any of it up"...
..that all the Line Commissioners.....are natural and obvious Effigy Fodder
to a Mobility of Rent--payers"...

Rent-seeking is an attempt to obtain economic rent (i.e., the portion of
income paid to a factor of production in excess of what is needed to keep
it employed in its current use) by manipulating the social or political
environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by creating new
wealth.


Why is Melancholic Mason dared to bring "any of it up"?