Adrien sighed. “As it happens, I think Jace di Sanya has a very poetic attitude toward business decisions. It’s not my responsibility to stop him from burning things, but personally I think the problem with the corporate age was that we tried to have it here. It’s obvious that our ideas were made for space. You could have mines the size of planets and skyscrapers the size of stars, and extract resources for centuries without breaking the systems you’re extracting from. The networks can keep Earth—it’ll be a backwater, but they can have it. We’ll take the rest of the universe in trade.”
