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+Title: Cost of Living
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+Author: Robert Sheckley
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+Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller
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+Release Date: July 19, 2009 [EBook #29458]
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+Language: English
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+ Cost
+ of
+ Living
+
+ _If easy payment plans were
+     to be really efficient, patrons'
+         lifetimes had to be extended!_
+
+ By ROBERT SHECKLEY
+
+
+Carrin decided that he could trace his present mood to Miller's suicide
+last week. But the knowledge didn't help him get rid of the vague,
+formless fear in the back of his mind. It was foolish. Miller's suicide
+didn't concern him.
+
+But why had that fat, jovial man killed himself? Miller had had
+everything to live for--wife, kids, good job, and all the marvelous
+luxuries of the age. Why had he done it?
+
+"Good morning, dear," Carrin's wife said as he sat down at the breakfast
+table.
+
+"Morning, honey. Morning, Billy."
+
+His son grunted something.
+
+You just couldn't tell about people, Carrin decided, and dialed his
+breakfast. The meal was gracefully prepared and served by the new
+Avignon Electric Auto-cook.
+
+His mood persisted, annoyingly enough since Carrin wanted to be in top
+form this morning. It was his day off, and the Avignon Electric finance
+man was coming. This was an important day.
+
+He walked to the door with his son.
+
+"Have a good day, Billy."
+
+His son nodded, shifted his books and started to school without
+answering. Carrin wondered if something was bothering him, too. He hoped
+not. One worrier in the family was plenty.
+
+"See you later, honey." He kissed his wife as she left to go shopping.
+
+At any rate, he thought, watching her go down the walk, at least she's
+happy. He wondered how much she'd spend at the A. E. store.
+
+Checking his watch, he found that he had half an hour before the A. E.
+finance man was due. The best way to get rid of a bad mood was to drown
+it, he told himself, and headed for the shower.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The shower room was a glittering plastic wonder, and the sheer luxury of
+it eased Carrin's mind. He threw his clothes into the A. E. automatic
+Kleen-presser, and adjusted the shower spray to a notch above "brisk."
+The five-degrees-above-skin-temperature water beat against his thin
+white body. Delightful! And then a relaxing rub-dry in the A. E.
+Auto-towel.
+
+Wonderful, he thought, as the towel stretched and kneaded his stringy
+muscles. And it should be wonderful, he reminded himself. The A. E.
+Auto-towel with shaving attachments had cost three hundred and thirteen
+dollars, plus tax.
+
+But worth every penny of it, he decided, as the A. E. shaver came out of
+a corner and whisked off his rudimentary stubble. After all, what good
+was life if you couldn't enjoy the luxuries?
+
+His skin tingled when he switched off the Auto-towel. He should have
+been feeling wonderful, but he wasn't. Miller's suicide kept nagging at
+his mind, destroying the peace of his day off.
+
+Was there anything else bothering him? Certainly there was nothing wrong
+with the house. His papers were in order for the finance man.
+
+"Have I forgotten something?" he asked out loud.
+
+"The Avignon Electric finance man will be here in fifteen minutes," his
+A. E. bathroom Wall-reminder whispered.
+
+"I know that. Is there anything else?"
+
+The Wall-reminder reeled off its memorized data--a vast amount of
+minutiae about watering the lawn, having the Jet-lash checked, buying
+lamb chops for Monday, and the like. Things he still hadn't found time
+for.
+
+"All right, that's enough." He allowed the A. E. Auto-dresser to dress
+him, skillfully draping a new selection of fabrics over his bony frame.
+A whiff of fashionable masculine perfume finished him and he went into
+the living room, threading his way between the appliances that lined the
+walls.
+
+A quick inspection of the dials on the wall assured him that the house
+was in order. The breakfast dishes had been sanitized and stacked, the
+house had been cleaned, dusted, polished, his wife's garments had been
+hung up, his son's model rocket ships had been put back in the closet.
+
+Stop worrying, you hypochondriac, he told himself angrily.
+
+The door announced, "Mr. Pathis from Avignon Finance is here."
+
+Carrin started to tell the door to open, when he noticed the Automatic
+Bartender.
+
+Good God, why hadn't he thought of it!
+
+The Automatic Bartender was manufactured by Castile Motors. He had
+bought it in a weak moment. A. E. wouldn't think very highly of that,
+since they sold their own brand.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+He wheeled the bartender into the kitchen, and told the door to open.
+
+"A very good day to you, sir," Mr. Pathis said.
+
+Pathis was a tall, imposing man, dressed in a conservative tweed drape.
+His eyes had the crinkled corners of a man who laughs frequently. He
+beamed broadly and shook Carrin's hand, looking around the crowded
+living room.
+
+"A beautiful place you have here, sir. Beautiful! As a matter of fact, I
+don't think I'll be overstepping the company's code to inform you that
+yours is the nicest interior in this section."
+
+Carrin felt a sudden glow of pride at that, thinking of the rows of
+identical houses, on this block and the next, and the one after that.
+
+"Now, then, is everything functioning properly?" Mr. Pathis asked,
+setting his briefcase on a chair. "Everything in order?"
+
+"Oh, yes," Carrin said enthusiastically. "Avignon Electric never goes
+out of whack."
+
+"The phone all right? Changes records for the full seventeen hours?"
+
+"It certainly does," Carrin said. He hadn't had a chance to try out the
+phone, but it was a beautiful piece of furniture.
+
+"The Solido-projector all right? Enjoying the programs?"
+
+"Absolutely perfect reception." He had watched a program just last
+month, and it had been startlingly lifelike.
+
+"How about the kitchen? Auto-cook in order? Recipe-master still knocking
+'em out?"
+
+"Marvelous stuff. Simply marvelous."
+
+Mr. Pathis went on to inquire about his refrigerator, his vacuum
+cleaner, his car, his helicopter, his subterranean swimming pool, and
+the hundreds of other items Carrin had bought from Avignon Electric.
+
+"Everything is swell," Carrin said, a trifle untruthfully since he
+hadn't unpacked every item yet. "Just wonderful."
+
+"I'm so glad," Mr. Pathis said, leaning back with a sigh of relief. "You
+have no idea how hard we try to satisfy our customers. If a product
+isn't right, back it comes, no questions asked. We believe in pleasing
+our customers."
+
+"I certainly appreciate it, Mr. Pathis."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Carrin hoped the A. E. man wouldn't ask to see the kitchen. He
+visualized the Castile Motors Bartender in there, like a porcupine in a
+dog show.
+
+"I'm proud to say that most of the people in this neighborhood buy from
+us," Mr. Pathis was saying. "We're a solid firm."
+
+"Was Mr. Miller a customer of yours?" Carrin asked.
+
+"That fellow who killed himself?" Pathis frowned briefly. "He was, as a
+matter of fact. That amazed me, sir, absolutely amazed me. Why, just
+last month the fellow bought a brand-new Jet-lash from me, capable of
+doing three hundred and fifty miles an hour on a straightaway. He was as
+happy as a kid over it, and then to go and do a thing like that! Of
+course, the Jet-lash brought up his debt a little."
+
+"Of course."
+
+"But what did that matter? He had every luxury in the world. And then he
+went and hung himself."
+
+"Hung himself?"
+
+"Yes," Pathis said, the frown coming back. "Every modern convenience in
+his house, and he hung himself with a piece of rope. Probably unbalanced
+for a long time."
+
+The frown slid off his face, and the customary smile replaced it. "But
+enough of that! Let's talk about you."
+
+The smile widened as Pathis opened his briefcase. "Now, then, your
+account. You owe us two hundred and three thousand dollars and
+twenty-nine cents, Mr. Carrin, as of your last purchase. Right?"
+
+"Right," Carrin said, remembering the amount from his own papers.
+"Here's my installment."
+
+He handed Pathis an envelope, which the man checked and put in his
+pocket.
+
+"Fine. Now you know, Mr. Carrin, that you won't live long enough to pay
+us the full two hundred thousand, don't you?"
+
+"No, I don't suppose I will," Carrin said soberly.
+
+He was only thirty-nine, with a full hundred years of life before him,
+thanks to the marvels of medical science. But at a salary of three
+thousand a year, he still couldn't pay it all off and have enough to
+support a family on at the same time.
+
+"Of course, we would not want to deprive you of necessities, which in
+any case is fully protected by the laws we helped formulate and pass. To
+say nothing of the terrific items that are coming out next year. Things
+you wouldn't want to miss, sir!"
+
+Mr. Carrin nodded. Certainly he wanted new items.
+
+"Well, suppose we make the customary arrangement. If you will just sign
+over your son's earnings for the first thirty years of his adult life,
+we can easily arrange credit for you."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. Pathis whipped the papers out of his briefcase and spread them in
+front of Carrin.
+
+"If you'll just sign here, sir."
+
+"Well," Carrin said, "I'm not sure. I'd like to give the boy a start in
+life, not saddle him with--"
+
+"But my dear sir," Pathis interposed, "this is for your son as well. He
+lives here, doesn't he? He has a right to enjoy the luxuries, the
+marvels of science."
+
+"Sure," Carrin said. "Only--"
+
+"Why, sir, today the average man is living like a king. A hundred years
+ago the richest man in the world couldn't buy what any ordinary citizen
+possesses at present. You mustn't look upon it as a debt. It's an
+investment."
+
+"That's true," Carrin said dubiously.
+
+He thought about his son and his rocket ship models, his star charts,
+his maps. Would it be right? he asked himself.
+
+"What's wrong?" Pathis asked cheerfully.
+
+"Well, I was just wondering," Carrin said. "Signing over my son's
+earnings--you don't think I'm getting in a little too deep, do you?"
+
+"Too deep? My dear sir!" Pathis exploded into laughter. "Do you know
+Mellon down the block? Well, don't say I said it, but he's already
+mortgaged his grandchildren's salary for their full life-expectancy!
+And he doesn't have half the goods he's made up his mind to own! We'll
+work out something for him. Service to the customer is our job and we
+know it well."
+
+Carrin wavered visibly.
+
+"And after you're gone, sir, they'll all belong to your son."
+
+That was true, Carrin thought. His son would have all the marvelous
+things that filled the house. And after all, it was only thirty years
+out of a life expectancy of a hundred and fifty.
+
+He signed with a flourish.
+
+"Excellent!" Pathis said. "And by the way, has your home got an A. E.
+Master-operator?"
+
+It hadn't. Pathis explained that a Master-operator was new this year, a
+stupendous advance in scientific engineering. It was designed to take
+over all the functions of housecleaning and cooking, without its owner
+having to lift a finger.
+
+"Instead of running around all day, pushing half a dozen different
+buttons, with the Master-operator all you have to do is push _one_! A
+remarkable achievement!"
+
+Since it was only five hundred and thirty-five dollars, Carrin signed
+for one, having it added to his son's debt.
+
+Right's right, he thought, walking Pathis to the door. This house will
+be Billy's some day. His and his wife's. They certainly will want
+everything up-to-date.
+
+Just one button, he thought. That _would_ be a time-saver!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+After Pathis left, Carrin sat back in an adjustable chair and turned on
+the solido. After twisting the Ezi-dial, he discovered that there was
+nothing he wanted to see. He tilted back the chair and took a nap.
+
+The something on his mind was still bothering him.
+
+"Hello, darling!" He awoke to find his wife was home. She kissed him on
+the ear. "Look."
+
+She had bought an A. E. Sexitizer-negligee. He was pleasantly surprised
+that that was all she had bought. Usually, Leela returned from shopping
+laden down.
+
+"It's lovely," he said.
+
+She bent over for a kiss, then giggled--a habit he knew she had picked
+up from the latest popular solido star. He wished she hadn't.
+
+"Going to dial supper," she said, and went to the kitchen. Carrin
+smiled, thinking that soon she would be able to dial the meals without
+moving out of the living room. He settled back in his chair, and his son
+walked in.
+
+"How's it going, Son?" he asked heartily.
+
+"All right," Billy answered listlessly.
+
+"What'sa matter, Son?" The boy stared at his feet, not answering. "Come
+on, tell Dad what's the trouble."
+
+Billy sat down on a packing case and put his chin in his hands. He
+looked thoughtfully at his father.
+
+"Dad, could I be a Master Repairman if I wanted to be?"
+
+Mr. Carrin smiled at the question. Billy alternated between wanting to
+be a Master Repairman and a rocket pilot. The repairmen were the elite.
+It was their job to fix the automatic repair machines. The repair
+machines could fix just about anything, but you couldn't have a machine
+fix the machine that fixed the machine. That was where the Master
+Repairmen came in.
+
+But it was a highly competitive field and only a very few of the best
+brains were able to get their degrees. And, although the boy was bright,
+he didn't seem to have an engineering bent.
+
+"It's possible, Son. Anything is possible."
+
+"But is it possible for me?"
+
+"I don't know," Carrin answered, as honestly as he could.
+
+"Well, I don't want to be a Master Repairman anyway," the boy said,
+seeing that the answer was no. "I want to be a space pilot."
+
+"A space pilot, Billy?" Leela asked, coming in to the room. "But there
+aren't any."
+
+"Yes, there are," Billy argued. "We were told in school that the
+government is going to send some men to Mars."
+
+"They've been saying that for a hundred years," Carrin said, "and they
+still haven't gotten around to doing it."
+
+"They will this time."
+
+"Why would you want to go to Mars?" Leela asked, winking at Carrin.
+"There are no pretty girls on Mars."
+
+"I'm not interested in girls. I just want to go to Mars."
+
+"You wouldn't like it, honey," Leela said. "It's a nasty old place with
+no air."
+
+"It's got some air. I'd like to go there," the boy insisted sullenly. "I
+don't like it here."
+
+"What's that?" Carrin asked, sitting up straight. "Is there anything you
+haven't got? Anything you want?"
+
+"No, sir. I've got everything I want." Whenever his son called him
+'sir,' Carrin knew that something was wrong.
+
+"Look, Son, when I was your age I wanted to go to Mars, too. I wanted to
+do romantic things. I even wanted to be a Master Repairman."
+
+"Then why didn't you?"
+
+"Well, I grew up. I realized that there were more important things.
+First I had to pay off the debt my father had left me, and then I met
+your mother--"
+
+Leela giggled.
+
+"--and I wanted a home of my own. It'll be the same with you. You'll pay
+off your debt and get married, the same as the rest of us."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Billy was silent for a while, then he brushed his dark hair--straight,
+like his father's--back from his forehead and wet his lips.
+
+"How come I have debts, sir?"
+
+Carrin explained carefully. About the things a family needed for
+civilized living, and the cost of those items. How they had to be paid.
+How it was customary for a son to take on a part of his parent's debt,
+when he came of age.
+
+Billy's silence annoyed him. It was almost as if the boy were
+reproaching him. After he had slaved for years to give the ungrateful
+whelp every luxury!
+
+"Son," he said harshly, "have you studied history in school? Good. Then
+you know how it was in the past. Wars. How would you like to get blown
+up in a war?"
+
+The boy didn't answer.
+
+"Or how would you like to break your back for eight hours a day, doing
+work a machine should handle? Or be hungry all the time? Or cold, with
+the rain beating down on you, and no place to sleep?"
+
+He paused for a response, got none and went on. "You live in the most
+fortunate age mankind has ever known. You are surrounded by every wonder
+of art and science. The finest music, the greatest books and art, all at
+your fingertips. All you have to do is push a button." He shifted to a
+kindlier tone. "Well, what are you thinking?"
+
+"I was just wondering how I could go to Mars," the boy said. "With the
+debt, I mean. I don't suppose I could get away from that."
+
+"Of course not."
+
+"Unless I stowed away on a rocket."
+
+"But you wouldn't do that."
+
+"No, of course not," the boy said, but his tone lacked conviction.
+
+"You'll stay here and marry a very nice girl," Leela told him.
+
+"Sure I will," Billy said. "Sure." He grinned suddenly. "I didn't mean
+any of that stuff about going to Mars. I really didn't."
+
+"I'm glad of that," Leela answered.
+
+"Just forget I mentioned it," Billy said, smiling stiffly. He stood up
+and raced upstairs.
+
+"Probably gone to play with his rockets," Leela said. "He's such a
+little devil."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Carrins ate a quiet supper, and then it was time for Mr. Carrin to
+go to work. He was on night shift this month. He kissed his wife
+good-by, climbed into his Jet-lash and roared to the factory. The
+automatic gates recognized him and opened. He parked and walked in.
+
+Automatic lathes, automatic presses--everything was automatic. The
+factory was huge and bright, and the machines hummed softly to
+themselves, doing their job and doing it well.
+
+Carrin walked to the end of the automatic washing machine assembly line,
+to relieve the man there.
+
+"Everything all right?" he asked.
+
+"Sure," the man said. "Haven't had a bad one all year. These new models
+here have built-in voices. They don't light up like the old ones."
+
+Carrin sat down where the man had sat and waited for the first washing
+machine to come through. His job was the soul of simplicity. He just sat
+there and the machines went by him. He pressed a button on them and
+found out if they were all right. They always were. After passing him,
+the washing machines went to the packaging section.
+
+The first one slid by on the long slide of rollers. He pressed the
+starting button on the side.
+
+"Ready for the wash," the washing machine said.
+
+Carrin pressed the release and let it go by.
+
+That boy of his, Carrin thought. Would he grow up and face his
+responsibilities? Would he mature and take his place in society? Carrin
+doubted it. The boy was a born rebel. If anyone got to Mars, it would be
+his kid.
+
+But the thought didn't especially disturb him.
+
+"Ready for the wash." Another machine went by.
+
+Carrin remembered something about Miller. The jovial man had always been
+talking about the planets, always kidding about going off somewhere and
+roughing it. He hadn't, though. He'd committed suicide.
+
+"Ready for the wash."
+
+Carrin had eight hours in front of him, and he loosened his belt to
+prepare for it. Eight hours of pushing buttons and listening to a
+machine announce its readiness.
+
+"Ready for the wash."
+
+He pressed the release.
+
+"Ready for the wash."
+
+Carrin's mind strayed from the job, which didn't need much attention in
+any case. He wished he had done what he had longed to do as a youngster.
+
+It would have been great to be a rocket pilot, to push a button and go
+to Mars.
+
+                                                     --ROBERT SHECKLEY
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Galaxy Science Fiction_ December 1952.
+    Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
+    copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
+
+
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