Starter Villain

by John Scalzi

“I was in a union myself,” I said. “Chicago Tribune Guild.” “But you’re not anymore, are you? Now you’re management! A suppurating bourgeois fistula of oppression!”

“So we’re like Spotify, but for evil.” “We’re much less evil than Spotify. We actually pay a living wage to the people whose work we’re selling.”

“In the real world, they can be what people like them usually are: a bunch of dudes born into money who used that money to take advantage of other people to make even more money. It works great until they start believing that being rich makes them smart, and then they get in trouble. Unless they find someone else to take advantage of.”