Andrew’s Serenepia is in the midst of a discussion about the difference between good exploitation and bad exploitation as regards Indian coir-mat workers. Andrew is completely wrong, of course, but the post and comments (my own being by far the best) are quite interesting. Read it if only for my great review of Greg Costikyan’s First Contract.

I just noticed one more amusing link: the protagonist of the book is an Indian businessman.

I don’t know; does the sarcasm come through in this post, or do I just sound arrogant?