All this student accommodation – who’s it for? Not for students, surely.
International students, maybe … The ones who actually fund the university …
I don’t believe that, either.
They’ll put the new police forces in them. The guys they’re bringing from overseas. The one’s they’re training in secret.
Social housing – that’s what they’re going to be. They’ll be for people who can’t pay their mortgages. Or their rent. Once AI takes all their jobs.
Us, in other words.
Us!? Fuck that. They’ll be for the compliant. The ones who survive the great cull and the great poisoning. Who won’t be all populist. Who won’t pose any kind of threat. Who’ll do their bidding, whatever it is. Servants and servitors, right? Subsisting on Universal Basic Income. Eating ze bugs. Signed up for endless government re-education courses to make themselves useful …
Work in Progress 