2032

2032
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In one wonderful moment Ruby, Jack and Noah realise that the city is theirs.<br /><br />That government was like a dead hand around your throat. Handouts for the old. A city nobody could afford to live in. Zero hour contracts. Somehow though they seemed impregnable. Ruby, Noah and Jack are the leaders of an unlikely opposition group that is chipping away at their power. Then in a few short days they receive support from powerful backers and sweep it all away.<br /><br />A city to run. To defend. They set out to create “capitalism with a human face.” Reforming housing and employment. Surprisingly they find themselves the beneficiaries of a wave of investment, as a bright new opportunity. Their enemies are conspiring to bring them down. Not through a frontal assault, but from within.<br /><br />In this utopian mystery there is so much hope despite the fragility. Can they survive against the odds?

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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.

.....

“Changing the balance.”

He should have paid more attention. Jack interjected.

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