Proxies at auctions are actually quite common. There are plenty of people who have neither of the time nor interest to show up in person, so they just pay someone to do it for them.
First of all, most people have no understanding or conceptual of even what the hell you’re talking about. Second of all, setting up, co-ops, etc., is extraordinarily difficult, as is becoming part of one. Most people believe it isn’t worth the effort, regardless of the reality of it.
The government makes the entire concept of a co-op, extremely difficult to exist, mostly because the government favors capitalism and punishes anything that runs against it. And, most notably, if there is anything the government can do to stop helping poor people and or minorities, that is always the first to target. Because people in control of our government are extra extraordinarily shitty.
Star Trek’s depiction of the late-24th century. The height of the Federation, with nearly-ubiquitous post-scarcity democratic socialism, where anyone can do what they want, unburdened by having to work just to survive. But if you do work, you have the freedom to pursue anything, anywhere.
That’s what I figured, but that doesn’t really mean there’s a “a truckload” of antimatter, just in antimatter containment equipment. The actual amount of antimatter is probably very tiny.
I recommend against it. They’re stringy and bitter.