The Mech Trade Association certainly attracted its fair share of weirdos.
From radicals that sought to disband the Big Two to reactionaries that wanted to freeze the status quo forever, the MTA was filled with ideologies of almost every stripe!
After a bit of thought, Ves did not find this strange gathering to be incomprehensible. The absence of a traditional governing institution did not result in the removal of politics.
It simply adapted to the latest structure and continued to ply its trade!
Whenever there was a situation where resources were scarce, different groups and people had to compete against each other to determine how to allocate them. The reality of politics was that a win for one faction often came at the expense of another faction.
Ves wondered where the Transhumanist Faction ranked.