Sharon Parker

“A clean slate, all the world's resources at his disposal, and this was what Dashing chose to do with it. Construct a pleasure-pen, laws enforced by half-drunk men with horses and guns. Keep some servants in chains and others imprisoned through simple fear. This was how it would always be, wasn't it? Even if Dashing had the vision, splitting the spoils of the land equally among his free people, it would collapse as soon as he died—or, more likely, was assassinated. All it took was one selfish or venal or mad leader to rot the whole fruit from the inside. This rot was inevitable. Unstoppable. Every bit of good would someday be undone.”
― Edward W. Robertson, Melt Down