The Trillionaires of Mars
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I can only imagine the kind of hell that would be created by a Trillionaire with complete disregard for the people who work for him in a wasteland where his workers completely depend on him for even the air they breath.
Also canned Perri-Air from Spaceballs, 1987.
Besides that I don't know what you're talking about. The earthlings had Universal Basic Income in their paradise ghettos. So what? Can't have it all, or can we?
Recommend my friend's novel Body Shop, about a mechanic on Deimos servicing the prospectors on the surface who endure mortal danger in search of immense wealth.
About the constant struggle to pay your 'O2 bond', your right to breath settlement air. Get behind too far and out the airlock you go.
Reads a little salacious at the start, apparently that's to put into sharp contrast the 'inner system' social norms with that of a 'roid-born person. No actual sex in the book; almost a romance but not all the meet-cutes and fake agony. Just real distress and mistreatment, from a society biased against vat-born 'artificial' humans. https://www.elainemature.com/product/14134713/body-shop-eboo...