Worldbuilding Prompt #626 - The Sunlight Hours Currency
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This story was inspired by Worldbuilding Prompt #626 - New Currency in the Worldbuilding community.
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The greatest disaster befell the world as a strange meteorite hits the planet and billions of lives were lost. In the damaged and ruined world after the disaster, people tried to rebuild the countries and the structures.
Now we know that an economy is built with finance and currency. However people used an unusual currency called sunlight hours.
Now after the apocalyptic destruction, the skies were filled with ashes of burnt stuff and that made daylight very scarce and very valuable. And as you may already know, value comes from scarcity.
People were seriously keeping track of their sunlight earnings with a special gadgets which was known to everyone as solar watches. They would show the solar watch straight into the skies and the slightest sunlight that comes is trapped. Sunlight which was once all around the people was now like single rays shooting for a short period of time in certain places that you would actually be lucky to discover. However the world was divided into two. A small portion of the world was having good sunlight and a major part had the skies covered with thick dust.
As it became more scarce the value of sunlight hours rose exponentially. People used sunlight hours to trade for goods, food and anything they may desire.
The impact of this to the world brought a serious imbalance. It was like a world with only Bitcoin as the currency and the mining was just the shere luck of you discovering the tiniest ray of sunlight striking the ground for a very short period of time.
Now you would think the easiest thing to do would be to fly rockets into space but the sky was so dense with ashes, you couldn't cross the hemispheres to get to space and also it was a post apocalyptic world, no body has the tech to build a space ship yet since almost everything was destroyed.
People would purchase things like clean water which was very expensive as well because most of the waters were contaminated after the apocalypse. They would also purchase seeds which were also quite expensive because most plants had died. Everything was quite expensive and the currency was also scarce.
Now as you may already know, no matter the type of world and whether post apocalyptic or not, there would be two groups of people. Those with 90 percent of the worlds Wealth and the average masses that are suffering to make ends meet.
There were two groups of people in the post apocalyptic world. The first were the Sunbarons, a name given to them by everyone because they had lots of sunlight hours and there were also those called the Sunstrugglers, a name given to them by everyone because they had little to no sunlight horurs. They were basically poor.
The Sunbarons lived in very safe, clean and sunny parts of the world while the Sunstrugglers lived in damaged and extremely dark parts of the world.
Now trade went on very well between these two groups and I guess that's what the apocalypse had created. The advantaged and the disadvantaged. Those with an abundance of sunlight to mine and trade with and those that would need to work real hard and exchange their services for a little sunlight hours.
The impact of this new cryptocurrency pushed the Sunstrugglers to work really hard to make goods and services for the Sunbarons who had lots of sun to spare. As time went on the Sunstrugglers got very good at making things, developing new technology that would help clear the skies, clean the waters, grow plants and food faster and healthier, building awesome structures which they did for themselves.
They built the very best for themselves and they got to a point where they could finally develop their very on currency called vision currency based on their passion for a better tomorrow.
The Sunbarons realized that overtime the Sunstrugglers looked better and had a better economy than theirs and they finally realized that whether post apocalyptic or not, the ultimate currency is human beings. Our skill, our unique sense of adventure and our level of intelligence which beats any other species.
The impact of the sunlight hours was basically a lesson to the society that the most ultimate resource is Human resource.
The End
Thanks so much for taking the time to read my blog post which is a story inspired by Prompt #626 New currency of the Worldbuilding community.
I hope you enjoyed this story guys. The best currency is ourselves. Have a lovely day guys and as always if you have any comment regarding this blog post I'll be happy to receive and respond to it. Catch you next time. Bye❤️
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