An innocent robotics researcher's lab has been demolished, the roboticist is dead, the lab assistants range from dead to traumatized, and a pocket everything on one of the rioters shows a recent text exchange - innocent, but anything could be code.
The greys arrest the other party to the conversation.
"Credit auction countries have all the money the government could want, no excuse to do anything with taxes other than make sure the market takes everything into account. No one else has that luxury."
"Tend to have lower productivity and lower hours-worked and more vacation time and things. It's not obvious those are worse, once you're past a certain threshold."
"I actually think Anitam should impose mandatory vacation time - since the credits are zero-sum, doesn't hurt anyone really - but it's not urgent or wildly popular and it's not as important as other concerns."
"Hard on small businesses when their employees take a big chunk of time off, doesn't really matter to blues and greens who amount to most of the vote..."
"The weighted votes thing is weird. I guess you might just be that different, but - humans aren't and it's hard to imagine. Shasali seems really bright."
"Shasali is unusual for a red - got arrested because she was coordinating their assassination arm, most of them don't do that - but the differences aren't very pronounced except in the aggregate, yeah."
"No, the reds just assassinate anyone working on robots because if we had robots we'd kill all the reds."
"Well, somebody was careless enough to text her for last-minute information, but I don't know whose fault that was, I haven't asked her. There wouldn't have been enough evidence for a conviction if she weren't a red."
"You're the one apparently in horrible agony - have you heard of anyone having nightmares that bad -"
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