• toast@retrolemmy.com
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    11 months ago

    Interesting. I take it, then, that there are no places in your town that sell torches in reasonable quantities.

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      10 months ago

      The cheapest house for sale in this city is over 3 million dollars, and it’s considered a tear-down. People buy 5 million dollar houses to scrape the land and build a 20 million dollar house.

      It’s an enclave for the mega-elite. Having a 9-figure net worth would make someone lower class.

      The citizens absolutely would not allow torches to be sold, and the police wouldn’t allow them to be lit. We have a police force the size of one for a city 6 times as big, and they’re here to keep out the homeless from the major city next door.

      I hate what this place represents. But they also pay me well (not that I could afford to live here of course), and I make them follow rules. They get mad at me, but they hate each other too, so Council usually backs me up.

      And there is great satisfaction in being able to say “no” to a billionaire.