Since then, the ultra-rich upper class has behaved strangely: the assassin Smoothbore is first paid by them to murder as many homeless people as possible before they change their minds and offer them huge sums of money instead.
Combined with the unstoppable progress of capitalism, this ultimately led to all wealth being concentrated in a single person, called the "Last Capitalist".
The other person describes the cruel consequences of this world, in which even breathable air had to be bought and people had to use their own bodies for raw materials, while those of the planet remained completely untouched.
[1] Publishers Weekly wrote that Liu Cixin "cushions his rougher truths with a wry humor", giving as example the spaceships being described as "intergalactic cold-relief capsules".
"[4] Liz Comesky wrote on International Examiner, that the short story is a "beautiful exploration on humanity and the cost of money.