Was The Cat Who Walked Through Walls a Tribute to Capitalism?
Throughout Robert A. Heinlein's "The Cat Who Walked Through Walls" we see Gwen and Richard getting charged outrageous prics for everything from being rescued to air. In fact, Richard has a long argument with Gwen where he says selling air is a business like anything else and that it was normal to charge for it. The only thing that bothers Richard are large, bureaucratic governments that are unanswerable to the public.
Isn't this a pretty direct endorsement of unregulated capitalism? Heinlein was hardly a cultural conservative, but economically he seems to be so, endorsing extremely free markets (albeit on the moon).
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