sad Cam in Milliways, with company
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There is some internal shuffling and then a guy says he needs a one-bedroom.

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"And what stuff."

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Pocket everything, clothes, uh, dishes, furniture, what does one do if one forgets things -

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"Email. Okay, that building right there, third floor, apartment NN."

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Off he goes. Everybody else lines up.

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He sorts them and makes lists of stuff.

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Soon they are all apartmented and waiting for stuff and money with which to presumably mob the grocery store.

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And Telkam will go bang a demon and then walk around with his demon leaving appropriate packages at everyone's door. The pocket everythings come with instructions on how to set up their accounts and get their first monthly payment, which is a hundred ni apiece.

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Do kids get money?

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Yep.

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Can their parents spend it?

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If the kids live with them.

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The grocery store is mobbed.

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The grocery store doesn't have any employees but it has that newfangled automatic checkout thing where you get charged for the things that go out the door with you so that works all right. 

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They figure that out and leave with food and go eat. It seems they were not fed on the boat.

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Assholes. 


Telkam leaves them to it.

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He gets an email saying that they have elected that one new blue as a representative.

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He's not sure what they need a representative for but sounds good if it makes them happy. 

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They certainly seem to think they need her. She sends him lists of stuff they could use and occasional questions. Is there a good place to put a school? Are there rules about taking online work from foreign countries? Does the country have a name?

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He drops off stuff. Here's a good place to put a school. They should send him designs and tomorrow there'll be a school there, unless they'd rather build it themselves for some reason. There are not rules about taking online work from foreign countries. The country doesn't yet have a name.

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He gets a floorplan for a school. Some of his citizens, mostly the new yellows, take online work.

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Other jobs that are available: if people want to ship rare earth metals of unclear origin from the shipping yard to other countries they can do that. If someone wants to staff the grocery store and keep it clean and decide which things to order more of they can do that. If someone wants to take on responsibility for building maintenance they can do that. All of these jobs pay a cut of the profits from the store or shipyard or apartment building and a share of ownership in the same; if you work at the job for eight years the grocery store or pier or apartment building belongs to you and you get all the profits from it from there forwards.

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The jobs are tentatively taken up. The representative asks what happens if someone does not do a good job at maintaining the apartment building.

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Then the residents will presumably have to pay someone else to do it and can deduct this from their rent and the lousy maintenance person won't make any money off it.

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How is he simultaneously deciding by fiat the pay schedule for apartment maintenance and expecting the residents' willingness to pay it to matter, please?

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