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== Comic Books ==
* In an issue of DC's post-''Zero Hour'' ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Bookcomics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', Magno, a character from a world where - as his name implies - [[Planet of Hats|almost everyone has powers over magnetism]], observes that on his world mining is still done by sapients because nothing else can replicate the flexibility of their powers. On most all other worlds, such work is done by robots, although in the same continuity the planet of Orando is governed by a ruling class of giant snake people and labor is done by a second-class citizenry of raccoon people.
* In the [[Marvel Universe]], one of the most valuable materials in the world ''must'' be mined by hand. Antarctic Vibranium breaks down the structure of metals (indeed, this is the main reason it ''is'' so valuable), so mining machines are simply too expensive to be practical.
* In the [[Dark Horse Comics]] adaptation of ''[[The Terminator]]'', Skynet initially puts surviving humans into labor camps. As with [[The Matrix]], one might [[WMG|assume]] that this is done mainly for punitive rather than practical reasons.
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