Household Chores: The Old Way

• The Hunger Games gave us a neo-Depression dystopia where media-obsessed elites torment the starving lower classes.
• The Expanse is about class warfare.
• The 1950 Foundation series was partly about saving the galaxy with sound economic programs.
• The 2012 novel Three Parts Dead, was a mythical reimagining of the 2008 financial crisis. The author, Max Gladstone, said you couldn't tell a story like the financial crisis with realism. You need fantasy to explain it.

The “dark” kind of science fiction deals with the foundation of economics, which is scarcity. There is a fear that poverty will come faster as automation continues to devalue human labor.

People are experiencing scarcity or are afraid of it on a regular basis. Writers are turning to economists to make their financial worlds more plausible.

For siblings who refuse to cooperate with each other, assign them a task that they can do as a team, like picking up the toys.

Over time, this will compel them to work together.

Who will get the bigger room? Who gets to name the cat? Have the kids bid for it with their chores or allowance.