With their vast sums of money, power, and accumulated riches from thousands of years of intergenerational wealth, there’s not much the ruling class coveted any longer. But this! This was different! By now, in the year 2400, history’s most precious raw materials – gold, platinum, oil, diamonds, lithium, and silicon – had been replaced with synthetic equivalents over years of human technological advancement. These ancient materials, long gone, were old news – materials for the masses. No, what it meant to be rich now was this: Natural Capital. And the bidding would begin soon. No one knew what it would likely sell for but, after years of warnings and predictions, we were finally here – the last cloud.

Artist notes: What happens when market economics comes from our natural world? I'm not sure, but I can't help but feel they are distinctly incompatible. We'll probably work something out but it's likely not going to be about living in smaller groups with less. Just... a different world.