David Sooby wrote: > Perhaps the potential unemployment problem is made even worse by all > the automated manufacturing using sophisticated programmable robots, > as seen in _The Cosmic Computer_. How much had changed by the time of the events in _Ministry of Disturbance_? Unemployed people who gravitated to gangs that existed to be paid off by government. Plus the bureaucracy simply kicked problems upstairs. Why should the Emperor have to come up with the solution to a grain surplus on one planet?
