the Gentle Cabinet: the escape hatch — selling the calendar itself — "Tine sold Johnny Gentle on his…"

Subsidized Time named outright as the solution to the Triple Bind: it is "a revenue-response to the heady costs of the U.S.'s Reconfigurative giveaway," the "Sino-temporal-endorsement revenue scheme" Tine "sold Johnny Gentle on," modeled on the "Sino-epithetic calendrical scheme" of Chinese-zodiac restaurant placemats. Selling the year to a corporate sponsor is the fourth kind of money — not a tax the electorate can revolt against, but a naming-rights auction. The birth of Subsidized Time is thus the birth of a state that funds its founding crime by monetizing time. (059/083 tabulate and headline the auction; this scene supplies its motive.)