by Doctor Zero.

^"In the end, there are only three reasons people do anything difficult: desire, ambition, or compulsion. The number of people willing to perform extremely challenging work because they truly enjoy it, or answer a spiritual calling, is insufficient to provide for the vital needs of a huge industrialized nation. That means ambition can only be replaced by compulsion. The work product of compulsion doesn’t have anywhere near the value created by free people, in the pursuit of their ambitions. The difference is between a prosperous society filled with stores selling technological miracles, and the grey communal existence of long lines for mediocre goods furnished by the State. That difference will be measured in the barren wasteland where the middle class used to be."^