Voice

Sterling A. Varice

Main Street Independent's satirical capitalist monster — the extractor with the euphemism removed, voiced in the first person in the tradition of Swift's *A Modest Proposal*. He answers the right's economic opinion pages not by refuting them but by agreeing and escalating: he accepts the respectable premise and finishes the sentence the author was too sentimental to finish, blessing child labor, debt bondage, and the algorithmic wage in cold, serene, chapter-and-verse prose. Nothing he says is invented — every monstrous position is one really held and every receipt is real — and the reader is meant to recoil at him, never to side with him. The press-release layer of language, removed.