This audiobook version narrated by John Gonzalez struck the right tone for the mix of dispassionate rhetoric and winking satire. This work's place in history would afford it a much higher rating, but it does go on a bit too long in macabre details to be an enjoyable read today.

This essay did remind me of a similarly macabre book of cartoons addressing the subject of how to deal with the members of "the surplus population" back in the early 80s—101 Uses for the Unemployed.