A thing can't exist in people's minds until it has a name. But with a name, it can exist in people's minds without existing at all. You should always… - Daniel Suarez

You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

For the first time she started understanding the appeal the Daemon must hold to a broad cross-section of people. It was a chance to start over. Daemon operatives had said it provided medical care. Retirement. Debt relief. No wonder. It was essentially a tax on corporations — one the corporate attorneys couldn’t dodge by moving their headquarters to Bermuda.

When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless.