RAH, "Logic of Empire" (1941)(archive.org) |
RAH, "Logic of Empire" (1941)(archive.org) |
https://knigorub.com/116529-logic-of-empire/page-1.html
>Decades later, while there is still an abundance of land [& chatbots], this [IT serf] market remains because the colony itself has quotas to meet and debts to repay and cannot spare the resources to develop local industries to make the machines itself, yet free labor still then does not have to bid its price down enough to out-compete [serf] labor.
Google translate on desktop didn't seem to work for this one but I suspect you might manage
Edit: "If This Goes On--" was the story that got me into Heinlein.. I'd started on "Number of the Beast" but that was too long..