What broke the stalemate was less ordinance than contagion. The Paradise’s ecology could not be contained by edict once a city's people had felt that kind of unmediated joy. Transit workers refused to detain visitors; a line manager in the upper terraces, exhausted by endless curated content, unplugged her own console and came down the stair. Small rebellions seeded larger ones: the scent of free bread in a public space undermined dozens of micro-economies dependent on scarcity.
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