17 | Annalee Newitz on Science, Fiction, Economics, and Neurosis
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Right to Live Whereever You Want
i just had to take away some of these basic rights from my characters, and suddenly it made perfect sense that people would choose to be indentured. I mean, even in our world now, like, there's plenty of jobs that people do that are basically indenture. So it reminds us we do take things for granted, right? Uh, both explicitly and implicitly in our laws. We have rights that we label and some i was talking to a law professor on a die rent episode of the broadcast,. not yet released, but, um, about the fact that there's a lot of things we think should be rights that no one ever thought to put in the constitution because everyone knows that
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