on account of all the business talk and because it seems like a good way for people to get their own plots going on building stuff:

rey has worked as a pretty well-paid engineer at one of the big corporations for a long while now and i'm wondering if she could effectively set up a hackerspace in new beijing. an open-use workshop full of the essential tools for lots of woodworking, machining, and computing, where people can donate to help with the running of it and the displaced can come work on whatever long-term projects courtesy of free auto-memberships.