Seconded! I had to read it twice before I started to understand it.
There's an epic science fiction novel in here.
On 30/06/2021 07:46, Annie Abrahams via NetBehaviour wrote:
Thank you for this strange and beautiful story Rhea
On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 22:48 Rhea Myers via NetBehaviour,
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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.
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