YouTube Censorship, and the Logic of Empire

The Logic of Empire is a science fiction novella by Robert A. Heinlein which explores the reasoning behind chattel-slavery.  It explores the lives of plantation owners on Venus, who keep their employees indentured through the Company Store, and overpriced addictive drugs, even though this relegates the Owners into becoming the servile Master in the Hegel’s master-slave dialectic.  As is repeatedly pointed out by the characters, it doesn’t make a lick of sense – a true free market, and respect...