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The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries tofire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burbbeater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming,polished sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches,talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator'scar has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs.The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on apeseta.Why is the Deliverator so equipped? Because people rely on him. He is a rolemodel. This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, yougot a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they haveguns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of theworst economies in the world. When it gets down to it -- talking trade balanceshere -- once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, oncethings have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens inTadzhikistan and selling them here -- once our edge in natural resources hasbeen made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship NorthDakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel -- once the Invisible Hand hastaken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad globallayer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity -- y'knowwhat? There's only four things we do better than anyone elsemusicmoviesmicrocode {software}high-speed pizza deliveryThe Deliverator used to make software. Still does, sometimes. But if life werea mellow elementary school run by well-meaning education Ph.D.s, theDeliverator's report card would say: "Hiro is so bright and creative but needsto work harder on his cooperation skills."So now he has this other job. No brightness or creativity involved -- but nocooperation either. Just a single principle: The Deliverator stands tall, yourpie in thirty minutes or you can have it free, shoot the driver, take his car,file a class-action suit. The Deliverator has been working this job for sixmonths, a rich and lengthy tenure by his standards, and has never delivered apizza in more than twenty-one minutes. book-quoteWe all have demons inside us, Nick. The Tsalagi have an old saying-every heart holds two wolves. One is the white wolf, who is made up of love, kindness, respect, decency, compassion, and all the things that are good in life. The black wolf is born of jealousy, hatred, pettiness, prejudice, vindictiveness, and all the poisons of the human personality. The two constantly war with each other for dominance. And one day, one wolf will overtake and devour the other." - Acheron" book-quote
