<blockquote>“But if other parents choose it and you don't, how will your daughter be able to compete?”
It always came down to that, didn't it? That cutthroat, cannibal, race-to-the-bottom mentality, where Any Good Parent would keep up with the joneses, or risk their children sinking into obsolescence and the underclass.
“All right,” said Maria, gruffly. “Give her the robot arms.”</blockquote>
