"Exactly! It's not just that there are market failures. We're in a mass extinction event, sea level rise, climate change, food panics, everything you're not reading in the news."
"The prices are always too low, and so the world is fucked. It's crowdsourced, it's democratic, it's capitalism, it's the market."
Sellers offer stuff, buyers buy it, and in the flux of supply and demand the price gets determined. We live by buying things with money, in a market that sets all the prices." We live in a world where people pretend money can buy you anything, so money becomes the point, so we all work for money. Something a coder would say, may I point out." "I thought you said the real value was code. That's the real value, food in your belly. "Right, and now people are even worried about food." It's like what you said, life means death." And without our code, there's no computers, no finance, no banks, no money, no exchange value, no value."
"Which by the way it's your turn to clean the toilet." Viruses, bacteria, all the way up to us." All life wants things and goes after them. Value resides in life, and life is coded, like with DNA." W hoever writes the code creates the value." Lastly there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance triggers a sequence of events that threatens the existence of all - and even the long-hidden foundations on which the city rests. Then there are two boys who don’t live there, but have no other home - and who are more important to its future than anyone might imagine. There is the internet star, beloved by millions for her airship adventures, and the building’s manager, quietly respected for his attention to detail. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear - along with the lawyers, of course. There is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. For the residents of one apartment building in Madison Square, however, New York in the year 2140 is far from a drowned city. New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century.Īs the sea levels rose, every street became a canal.
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