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... e, the miners were at the very bottom, ranking just above the prisoners.

The old government had hired them from poor nations in Africa and Southeast Asia to save money. They paid them pennies just twenty or thirty thousand dollars a year to do backbreaking work in a vacuum.

Under the old system, a single stalk of grown celery cost a hundred dollars. For these men, fresh vegetables were an impossible luxury.

But the end of the world had changed the rules. The economy was g ...

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