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Exploitation In Kurt Vonnegut's The Euphio Question

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It is a nice feeling to be so financially secure that one can live without a care in the world, but when that financial security comes from commercial exploitation, there might be a problem. In Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story, “The Euphio Question,” he criticizes this commercial exploitation of new technology in present-day society by criticizing a mirror version in his story. Radio announcer Lew Harrison mulls over the idea of selling a newly discovered sound that induces euphoria, saying “‘“Lew, how can you cash in on this gimmick if you can’t get a monopoly on the universe?”’... ‘Maybe it’s the kind of thing that shouldn’t be cashed in on,’” (Vonnegut 220). The narrator disagrees with Harrison, reasoning that selling what is effectively
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