The Year of the Jackpot is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published 1952, and collected in one of Heinlein's anthologies, The Menace from Earth.
In the story, a trend-following statistician finds romance and a disturbing conclusion. The story touches on recurrent Heinlein themes of survivalism and the prudishness of social mores of the time.
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“The principle of fashion is ... the principle of the kaleidoscope. A new year can only bring us a new combination of the same elements; and about once in so often we go back and begin again.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)