¿Qué resultaría de mezclar algo de Kafka con conocimientos de política económica? What would result mixing a little Kafka thing with political economics? ¡1984! (1949) George Orwell. Cuando la literatura predice el futuro. When literature predicts the future.

¿No leíste 1984? ¿Qué estás esperando?
Festeja sus 70 años. Así que arreglate un poco para la fiesta. Vas a la librería, lo comprás (o lo pedís prestado- algunos prestan libros aún, aunque no sea mi caso) y lo lees.
Haven´t read 1984 yet? What are you waiting for? We are celebrating its 70 aniversary. So get dress for the party. Go to the bookstore, by the novel (or borrow it if you find someone who lends books, not me) and read it.

"Pues si todo el mundo disfrutara del ocio y la seguridad, la gran masa de personas que por lo general están embrutecidas por la pobreza terminarían cultivándose y aprendiendo a pensar por sí mismas; y, más tarde o más temprano, repararían en que dicha minoría privilegiada privilegiada carecería de función y acabarían con ella. A largo plazo, una sociedad jerárquica solo era posible si se basaba en la pobreza y la ignorancia".  Capítulo IX, segunda parte.

"(...) el Partido ambiciona el poder en sí mismo. No nos interesa el bienestar ajeno, sino únicamente el poder. Ni la riqueza, ni el lujo, ni la longevidad, ni la felicidad: solo el poder en estado puro. Somos distintos de todas las oligarquías del pasado, porque sabemos lo que hacemos. Las demás, incluso las que más se nos parecían, eran cobardes e hipócritas. Los nazis alemanes y los comunistas rusos utilizaron métodos muy similares a los nuestros, pero nunca tuvieron el valor de reconocer sus motivos. Fingían, y tal vez incluso creyeran, haber tomado el poder contra su voluntad y por un tiempo limitado, y que a la vuelta de la esquina esperaba un paraíso en el que la gente sería libre e igual. Nosotros no somos así. Sabemos que nadie toma el poder con la intención de renunciar a él. El poder no es un medio, sino un fin. Nadie instaura una dictadura para salvaguardar la revolución, sino que la revolución se hace para instaurar una dictadura. El objetivo de las persecuciones son las persecuciones. El de la tortura, la tortura. Y el del poder, el poder". Capítulo III, tercera parte.

" If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance". Chapter IX. Part II.

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power". Chapter III. Part III.