Peter Hug and Janet Sandheart have a conversation on the boardwalk, next to a spaceport. He does his best to explain to Janet how lucky she is to live in an era where the universal basic income is a granted human right, but that kind of argument has no effect on her.
Peter Hug is a social worker in a world where poverty has been eradicated through the universal basic income. His job is to make sure unstable citizens ― usually referred to as wasters ― don't fall in-to social exclusion, debt, homelessness, hunger and crime.
Throughout the several short episodes of the story, Peter will meet characters of all sorts, including people with borderline, anxiety, depression and bipolar disorders, frustrated artists, gambling and drug addicts, psychopathic entrepreneurs, not to mention bureaucrats, minor politicians, career-focused colleagues, and a huge number of corrupt individuals.
In a setting of flying cars, garden cities, space travel and aliens ― most of them born on Earth ― as part of society and the economy, the narrative will depict issues of daily life, as old as human nature itself, highlighting the everlasting fight between selfishness and altruism, no matter the evolution of technology nor how egalitarian and fair societies and political regimes try to become.
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