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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: YASID
Date: 15 Jun 2024 11:47:34 -0000
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In article <v4j1uc$n8k$3@reader1.panix.com>,
Mark Shaw  <mshaw@panix.com> wrote:
>What's the short story that inspired the film "Idiocracy"?
>
>Or maybe didn't "inspire" it, but the idea is the same. Might have 
>been late Golden Age.

Could be Kornbluth's _Marching Morons_ although Kornbluth has several
other stories set in that same world.  He is one of my favorite authors
and deserves to be read more than he is these days.
--scott
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