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Even though all wealth has since been returned to digital records with the ever growing security of the <span class="mu-i">Threemind</span> computer system, these antisocial actors work on forms of property outside of normal means, and have even circumvented the inheritance system of the Hegemony, allowing wealth to be transferred from parent to child over the last generation or two. This goes against the entire philosophy of the Hegemony's eugenic and meritocratic methods of success and reward!
While it would give you great pleasure to bust this criminal organization, they actually do have some use. By allowing a secondary “illegal” black market to run counter to your own, they can deal with some of their own logistical problems and adapt quickly to consumer demands of “real food”, while the Hegemony can provide primary sustenance with Biocubes and government rations. It has also inspired a lot of Jaxtians to become more self sufficient in growing their own food, though their reason for doing so may be corrupted by <span class="mu-i">Capitalism</span>.
Because <span class="mu-i">you decided not to reduce or suspend your population</span> immediately after the AI crisis, and <span class="mu-i">because you did not immediately colonize Vetuck with its fertile farmland</span>, the ability to transition away from the foodcubes and make the realfood merchants is still not easily within your grasp. You could enforce your will and destroy the organization, but to do so would take up a lot of time of your top people- including your own.
I mean, nobody likes the fucking things, and everybody would prefer real stuff, but what's the harm? Why do you need to replace the biocubes at all?
Think of the cost saving measures at not having to try and expand your farming economy to support... <span class="mu-i">99 billion people</span>? Has it really grown that much? Your steady post-crisis goal of 2% per year including indigo invitros... yeah, that's about right. Soon, you will reach 100 billion Jaxtians during your reign. An unprecedented first, and a massive challenge. The thought of providing good, natural, balanced diets to all those mouths across a dozen different space colonies with months long transport times makes your head spin. It would be an astronomical cost, to say the least.
Perhaps... this is one of those problems you can just ignore. Pass the buck. Focus on your legacy, and your vow. What say you, Supreme Ruler?
>Crush the black market and publicly punish the Nouveau Rich (Takes time)
>Undercut the "real food" sellers by flooding the market with your own with mass farming programs and installations (Expensive)
>Denounce the black market practice and praise the Biocube rationing but otherwise do nothing
>Just let it go and focus on your own stuff
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