# Ease

A family disagreement makes a speculative economic arrangement personal. The premise allows readers to ask what remains unsettled when material security is taken for granted.

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## A reading lens

Distinguish a fictional policy from current law. Employment, aspiration and identity can become related questions without any one of them supplying a complete answer to the others.

## Questions for your reading

- What purposes can work serve beyond income?
- How do relatives come to different expectations of a good life?

## Source books

- [Haedian Sci-Fi Short Stories: Volume Two](https://paulhaedo.com/books/haedian-sci-fi-short-stories-volume-two/)

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