Rich Under Their Hate: The Social Status System
"You always were so dramatic with your data visualizations, Pim. It isn't 'liquidating' anything. It’s refining. It’s distilling the essence of the city into something portable, something that can be uploaded."
"Uploaded where?" Pim spun around in her chair, the leather creaking in the suffocating silence of the penthouse. Outside, the skyline of Bangkok was a jagged, dying row of teeth. The usual vibrant neon pulses of the city had vanished, replaced by a deep, hollow darkness that felt like a burial shroud. "There is no 'elsewhere,' Chalida. There is only this server, this house, and the people we’ve already betrayed. If we don’t kill this connection, we’re going to be erased along with th