2032
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Rental Riot
Ruby meets the backers
Ruby meets the backers
Takeover
Ruby's victory speech
Landlords
Shepparton
DeathLotto
Money Flood
Fitzroy
Hanni
Startup City
StrangeDeaths
Jack and the employer
Ketan
Frederick Bose
George is recruited
Hanni
North of Shepparton
Return to the Fun Palace
Jacek
Frankston
Jack
Hospitals
Jack goes north
Water
Dominoes
Energy
Darkness
Ruby
George
Believers
Noah and total war
Deeper and darker
Dennis
Sunrise
About the cover
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The house was down a backstreet about ten minutes walk from Footscray station. Jack was early, so he walked slowly towards the target address. Smiled at some kids playing in the alleyway, kicking a ball about. The suburb was mostly still semi-detached houses of at least 50 year vintage, but in the middle distance stood row upon row of new apartments. Strangely though, these semi-detached brick houses were still very fashionable with the renters. He wondered what the original owners would make of the prices they sold for now. Eye watering numbers. To Ruby, Jack and Noah and their followers it was a drain on the economy. Every dollar spent here was a dollar that could not be invested elsewhere. For a moment he was disoriented, and almost walked in the wrong direction. The glasses corrected him, he turned around and there it was. A crowd of at least fifty people. Just for one house rental.
Way back even this government (which was captive to property interests) had banned the auctioning of rental agreements. The exercise of market forces: rather than a fixed rent for a house, auction it The rental would go to the highest bidder. But it was a bridge too far. It was deeply unpopular, and the banning was widely supported. Rather than eliminate it though, the law just drove it underground. So this crowd was gathered for the rental auction. It couldn’t be online as that would alert even the lazy authorities. Here the auction took place in a local grid of device to device. All near-field and local. Bids circulated and progress was totally invisible. If you looked closely you could see fingers moving and rental prices moving ever upward.
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“Changing the balance.”
He should have paid more attention. Jack interjected.
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