Thank you for this strange and beautiful story Rhea On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 22:48 Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour, < netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> https://twitter.com/rheaplex/status/1402443000454672384 > > The RAFFLE Act (Retreat Away From Flood Level Elevations) mandated > withdrawing from rather than fighting rising sea levels. It bankrupted > entire cities and made landowners in the “RAFFLE Belt” into trillionares. > As a legal dodge, all property by the sea was declared to be $1. > > These properties were were purchased by funds that mixed them with > property far inland and sold them as bundles, showing a massive profit. > Until various DAOs bought the bundles using flash loans, broke them up, and > sold the prime land for an even higher profit. > > The DAOs held on to the junk properties, ostensibly to save the gas fees > (which were more than the properties were worth). But then asteroid mining > started. Asteroids were aerobraked onto the planet and mined by cheap human > labour rather than expensive offworld robots. > > Aerobraking a planet-smasher dumps ridiculous amounts of ash, soot, and > grit into the atmosphere. Which reduces the sunlight that hits the Earth’s > surface. Which cools it. Suddenly the oceans weren’t going to rise as high. > > So the DAOs holding junk properties were suddenly quintillionaires. They > cut up submerged buildings and glued them together on the newly high land > and undercut RAFFLE Belt landlords. The RAFFLE Zones became vibrant > economic and cultural hubs. > > The other thing that cutting out the sun and hitting the planet with the > force of a frat party of Tsar Bombas does is to make bits of the planet > where nobody and nothing important lives uninhabitable. Some of the RAFFLE > DAOS were Deodands, onchain land and wildlife proxies. And this left them > understandably angry. With their newfound wealth they could incentivize > those humans plugged directly in onchain to do something about it. From > ecoterrorism to mass protests to rituals of morning. Those ridden by any > DAO in this way are known as “horses”, a piece of classic cyberpunk > cultural appropriation. Over time as action and protest failed, all that > was left for the deodands were the horses of mourning rituals. The > superstars of the deep anthropocene, the fame and incentives for their > inhuman performances unimaginable. > > And yet however many APUs the deodands spin up to embody their grief they > do not understand it’s subjectivity. One of them has a plan to address > this. If there are any ethical problems with the plan, the deodand cannot > see them. And therefore they do not exist for it. > > It is all just incentives. > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >
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