I said "Ihia congratulates you on saying pah!" and she said "ahm ahm ahm".

Eee!

Katin video! She waves fat little arms and says hmmmmmmmm!

The internet is the best. Photos are the best. Video is the best.

Computers are so great!

I don't know any specifics but sometimes reds manage to get good enough online fake identities and can do some remote work.

That's a good idea! Hm. Maybe we could get them doing agriculture and sell food to other red districts?

There'll be more of a niche for that after the Voan food is all eaten up and it was a lot of food and there aren't that many reds, but you could probably get some summer crops underway now, sure.

Okay. Uh, should you relay the suggestions, should I be looking into getting them seeds?

I'll ask them if they wanna farm or what! You're okay if they're like "actually we want to open a garment factory and sell reds clothes", right?

Absolutely.

There is a delay.

There is a small contingent interested in, like, gardening, but not full on crop dusting airplanes farming. No strong consensus. It's kind of hard to start from scratch in consumer goods because they have a lot of fancy factory equipment and reds know jack about that.

Odette could probably copy fancy factory equipment.

But they wouldn't know how to run it and then you've got people losing hands in the machines or something and it'll need maintenance they can't do and the global economy is complicated who knew.

That's fair.

But now they can't get busted for out of caste income so they're gonna step up the remote work thing.

Out of caste income cap?

Not allowed to make more than some fraction exactly how much varies usually about 20% of your money from stuff that isn't in-caste stuff.

...Huh.

Some places reds aren't allowed any out of caste income at all but Orvara allows it, it's just really hard to get work even online if anybody knows you're red.

Bleh.

Well, you know, what can you do.

You're not wrong, it's just that people being terrible is a harder taste to get out of my mouth than garlic.

Yeah.

It's so stupid.

I keep thinking--your hair is such a pretty shade of pink, it's so dumb to hate you over it.

Well, it's not technically about the hair. Wasn't any better back when it was white or for Katin who grows it orange.