https://anarchygames.org/magazine/tags/citizen-rights/Recent content in Citizen Rights on Cassette Future MagazineHugoen-usWed, 17 Jun 2026 11:18:02 +0000https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/06/no-one-has-ever-gone-broke-underestimating-galactic-intelligence-new-evidence-submitted/Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:18:02 +0000https://anarchygames.org/magazine/2026/06/no-one-has-ever-gone-broke-underestimating-galactic-intelligence-new-evidence-submitted/<h1 id="no-one-has-ever-gone-broke-underestimating-galactic-intelligence-new-evidence-submitted">No One Has Ever Gone Broke Underestimating Galactic Intelligence: New Evidence Submitted</h1> <p>Let me tell you about the best sales pitch I ever heard.</p> <p>I was moving comm subscriptions in the Belt, back when the Ceres relays were still patched together with splice-wire and optimism. My floor manager — a beautiful crook named Vasquez — had a technique he called the <em>Fog Wall</em>. You didn&rsquo;t lie, exactly. You just built a sentence so long, so stuffed with technical-sounding syllables, that by the time the mark reached the end of it, they&rsquo;d forgotten what the question was. He sold 40,000 subscriptions in a quarter. Retired to Ganymede. Sends me a card every solstice.</p>