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Author: zarpaulus

Dec 15th 2013 at 1:43:17 PM

[[AC: Literature]]
* In the ''Literature/ChildrenOfSteel'' series [[PettingZooPeople animen]] are indentured to their parent company for 50 years or until they've paid off the cost of their gestation and upbringing.  Few survive that long.
* [[DesignerBabies Azi]] in Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/AllianceUnion'' universe have the rights of minors but they can be made citizens under certain circumstances, and their children are citizens.  Considering the original point of azi was to increase the Union's genetic diversity.

[[AC: Tabletop Games]]
* In ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' indentured servitude was revived once BrainUploading was developed.  {{Mega Corp}}s would hire people from third-world countries and upload their Egos to cheap synthmorphs on their mining colonies throughout the solar system in exchange for some years of labor.  Then came the Fall and billions uploaded themselves seeking to escape the [[AIIsACrapshoot TITANs]], most became disembodied [[VirtualGhost infomorphs]].  The newly emerged Hypercorps began exploiting this massive "infugee" population with indenture contracts promising them new bodies, which often have built-in dependencies on expensive treatments that only the corps can provide.  Naturally most of the Autonomist Alliance condemns this practice, with the exception of the anarcho-capitalist Extropians (the rest of the Alliance being collectivists).