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Amentan summoners apply! The GCP might want to only consider men because the women cheerfully anticipate being pregnant every spring.

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It's, uh, not illegal to hire people who expect to have kids, for this job, but if they'd require more hazard pay or bring it up at the interview they will be steered away.

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They do not require more hazard pay! Some of them bring it up at the interview, as if it's completely obvious.

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"...We have never actually had to shoot a summoner but it's mostly popular with people who don't have dependents," an interviewer says.

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" - oh, see, at home this is the sort of job someone'd take in order to afford kids. The risk compares favorably to summoning professionally anyway."

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"Are there a lot of jobs where you agree that your employer can shoot you in Amenta?"

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"- well, that's more or less what any kind of confidential government work comes out to."

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"...I see."

They will hire some pregnant women.

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Their liaison is so happy! She and her husband get a place on Mars. They have a large personal staff. Some of the GCP summoners live nearby.

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Martians make friends.

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They are very friendly! Martians probably do not typically have a full-time cook, housekeeper, hairdresser and security guard. They will have a nanny when the baby comes, too!

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Yeah, Martians mostly order delivery and have housecleaning robots and go to the salon and trust the police? Why do they need all these staff, do they not like Martian food? Don't they think Scrubba™ bots are cute?

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They do like Martian food! The cook is learning Martian food! If the housekeeper thinks a Scrubba™ can do his job then maybe he'll buy one. 

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...huh.

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Purples automating their own jobs would be fine but blues automating purple jobs would be very bad behavior, see.

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Is there a law that says they have to pay a housekeeper even if all he does is own a Scrubba™?

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It's not a law at all - if you're poor you might cut down your staff to afford a child - but people look to it as a cue about your general outlook and sensibilities. And because it's what you'd do if you were poor, it's definitely not done if you aren't poor, you know.

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Martians like to signal wealth by giving lots of money to charity and knowing things about live theater.

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What sort of charities are there on Mars?

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Various arts foundations! HALO (Hellas AngeLic Organization)! Conservation organizations, biodiversity-oriented and areological. Disaster relief. Science and medicine grant organizations. Legal help. Stuff for at-risk children and bereaved family support. Zoos and historical societies and museums and such. Religions. Schools. Disability stuff.

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Huh. Blues keep their staff but they also attend live theatre and give to the arts.

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The arts appreciate that.

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"That went about as well as we could have hoped for, I think. You have a lovely world."

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"Thanks. Turned it upside-down myself."

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"Must have been fun."

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