Asimov robot stories are all about finessing the 3 laws. Foundation about Big Man types within psychohistory, which denies they can matter
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They both have a theme about the fall of civilizations and how new ("young") powers emerge on rent-free geo-economic frontiers.
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but I don't remember him actually writing about economics or rent. He seemed to think it was about how luxury decays old cultures
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Asimov was relying on a once common historical narrative that I still happen to think is superficially accurate

