The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick

     I have recently been reading the book "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" by Philip K. Dick. It is set in a future where the Earth has heated up to the point where people need to stay indoors most of the time and can't face the sun with bare skin ever. On colonies on other planets such as Mars, people resort to an illegal drug called Can-D to look into the eyes of a doll in a "Perky Pat" layout in past Earth. But a man named Palmer Eldritch comes back with a strange lichen from the universe outside of the solar system and makes a new company called Chew-Z that sells legal Chew-Z.
     The protagonist is someone named Barney Mayerson. He is a pre-cog (someone who can glimpse into the future at future possibilities) who works for P.P. (Perky Pat) Layouts. I can relate to him because I have made the wrong decision and it has had consequences.
     Another leading character in the story is the CEO of P.P. Layouts, Leo Bulero. He lives lavishly and holds many mistresses, but everything falls apart when Eldritch becomes competition. I can relate to him because I have worked hard on something only to have someone else take the reward from right under me. It is hard to get over it.