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5. Digital Work Units

The timing of the Beast’s appearance couldn’t have been better for his play for power. After the chaos that followed the collapse of money in the world and the confusion that followed, the masses were ready for a world leader who could bring them peace and prosperity. And such a man was the Beast, a deeply “spiritual” fellow who promised the world a new beginning. The idea was conveniently interjected into their daily diet of media input. He won them with flatteries and false promises. He was a prophet of peace and plenty and a new world order, and clever enough and powerful enough to make it happen. It had all fallen into place so “naturally” that many just accepted it as the expected path of social development.

How he amassed the control of nations was not so obvious. As his power and popularity grew, so did his ego and his blasphemy of God. His rhetoric had gone so far as to openly say that he was God, worthy of the same praise and worship. He claimed to worship forces, but actually he only worshipped himself. He wasn’t even a very attractive individual, but looked like a person with too much hate bottled up within.

He won many through his policy of giving away to the common people the riches he gained from his conquests. Like a modern-day Robin Hood, he appeared to many as an answer to their prayers, declaring an end to many debts and mortgages. On the wave of approval from the population, he introduced his monetary system that promised to regulate all financial transactions so that no one could again oppress others through buying and selling of property. People owned their property for the first time. He was like an avenging angel upon the greedy executives of the earth who exacted huge incomes while their laborers remained in poverty. All of the assets that people personally held needed to be declared by a certain cutoff date or they would become worthless. Money was worthless and littered the streets. Gold, silver, and precious jewels also needed to be declared and were said to have no intrinsic value and were not to be used as an alternate form of currency. If anyone had any valuables, they were to have them appraised and converted to SOL units. The only legal currency worldwide was to be the SOL units [Digital Store of Labor] and all citizens would receive 1000 of these units as credit toward their implant chips if they signed up early. The line ups to receive this free digital cash were incredible. The source of this free money was the huge amounts of cash collected worldwide by declaring all other currency null and void and illegal to use after the cutoff date. The government even set a maximum amount of SOLs that a person could own. Having more than the allotted amount meant having to pay heavy taxes. Stock values were all but wiped out in the economic collapse. Organized crime had to find a new way of operating without cash. The new economic system was hailed by the common people as the true beginning of fair and honest government now that the flow of money could be regulated.