by Jeff Berwick
Dollar Vigilante
It’s 2030 and you live in a “Vertical Self-Management Center (VSC)”
This VSC is less a co-living/co-working community of happy remote-working vegans without cars and kitchens, and more a skyscraper-like prison with hundreds of levels and thousands of involuntary inmates. Each day, an elaborate feast is laid out on a platform, which drops from floor to floor. Each level can only eat the leftovers of those above. There’s supposedly enough food for everyone—if the prisoners only eat what they need.
The people on the top levels gorge themselves so that by the time the table reaches the lower floors, there’s nothing left.
Sound familiar? It might, because: