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The Five Worst Men in the World, A.D. 2150

Tom Ball

    I, Anthony told Veronica, “My friend and I at Times Magazine, had written an expose of the ‘The Five Worst Humans” The piece was about how everyone was insane in the modern World. In particular five great bad magnates.
    The fifth worst was Trevor R. who forced everyone on Mercury to work on the gold mines and manipulate the robot builders to produce gold. Trevor’s palace was solid gold and he bought up all the gold mines on Earth and in Space. And he quadrupled the price of gold, but it was in demand more than ever. And he was the Solar Systems eleventh richest man. And his pet project was to create a World on Ariel, Moon of Uranus in which people were all taller than 12’ tall and were dressed in gold foil. The giants would plot against inferior humans in all of Space. The giants had the gold to buy out legislatures and raise armies to fight in Space. He turned Space into a giant war zone. The giants he claimed had larger brains and were superior and violence was golden.
    The fourth worst man was a man, Bob L., the mayor who forced the people of “Jagged city,” on Mars to sing in the mad choir about dark deeds. Like putting the former mayor in a gibbet and throwing political opponents into the oubliette. And forcing the people to worship the Devil and encouraged them to betray those opposed to the mayor for big money.
    Everyone was a potential spy of the mayor. And Jagged city was named the worst city to live in, in the Solar System. And most of the population wanted to leave, but Bad Bob forbid it and closed the spaceport. The colony quickly fell behind other colonies on Mars and elsewhere in terms of technology. So, they didn’t have the latest Supercomputers, automation, Space cars and love dolls. But Bob said, “The city belonged to me, and I can do whatever I want with it.” Whilst elsewhere people were given early retirement due to automation, on Jagged city people had to work hard, mostly in the service industry and most donated what little spare money they had to the Devil. Bob said he was the Devil’s avatar here on Jagged city. And the Devil wanted people to murder one another. It was a fine state of affairs...
    The third worst man was Gerald K., a man who derided the wise men of his time and claimed he was the wisest. And he said he’d created tens of millions of jobs, more than anybody else. But observers pointed out that all the jobs were just wage slavery and mostly in poor cities where they lived in relative misery. Most of these poor cities were in Africa and South America which in history always had economic problems. The UN President tried to get this zillionaire to pay his workers a living wage. But Gerald said, without him the Southern World economies would collapse.
    And Gerald said he would never die and would only get richer. He planned to settle Space with his corporation which provided food, drugs, air cars, condos, etc. In the past, Space was for pioneers, but he envisioned “camps” of poor workers and was willing to pay indentured workers for their trip to Space and quarters in camps under domes. He glamorized life in Space. But critics said, he was turning Space into a giant ghetto. However, he pointed out that without him, there would be no one to give the poor a job. And he said, other rich people behaved just like him, only he was a better business entrepreneur.
    Some people envisioned a socialist democracy, but that wasn’t how things turned out. Most nations were tyrannies and ruled by the tyrants with the support of the rich elite, just like Gerald. Most of Gerald’s investments were in such tyrannies on Earth and in Space. And no one seemed to have a practical alternative to Gerald’s business Empire. Except some said automation should be introduced. But critics said, the rich entrepreneurs would still take the lion’s share of the profits. And socialism was now out of fashion, most intellectuals were elitists. It was just the way the World worked.
    The second worst man was Will R., the proprietor of love dolls over all Earth. He was known to have said, love is dead, but everyone could have plenty of sex. Some love dolls were for the masses and were cheap and ecstatic and the best models of love doll were for the richest only. Some said, he had single-handedly eliminated romance and love. And he encouraged people to have children who they never saw as old-fashioned parenting was unnecessary and spoiled the children. Some romantic writers asked how society could let him get away with it?
    And the worst person in the World was Nathaniel B. He ruled the Afrasian Federation. He was the most powerful persona in the World today. He was known to have said, black/brown-skinned people were the best and yellow and white people were inferior. And he promoted dark skinned people to positions of power in the Federation. But many of the wealthiest in the Federation were white or yellow. However, he used his military to arrest these wealthy people and replaced them with dark-skinned humans. It all happened so fast that the tycoons were caught off guard and jailed without the benefit of legal counsel.
    Some said Nathaniel was riding a wave of popular discontent with the status quo. And they said the former great magnates had no one but themselves to blame. But many thought Nathaniel was in fact riding the World’s economy into ruin. Many thought he was the worst man ever. He had certainly upset the applecart.
    And Times Magazine the selectors of the five worst persona the World knew today, had all their editors arrested and jailed indefinitely. It was one of the last acts of rebellion in the World before the five worst people and others, eliminated all resistance through Mind Reading Technology (MRT). It turned out that MRT was the ultimate controlling mechanism for the powers that be. And they all had spies. Those that didn’t like the World order were summarily executed in the end.

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