Devon Eriksen pens an ultra-short story in response to Senator Elizabeth Warren’s claim that “we” need to take a lot more money from Elon Musk to benefit “everyone”:
This-individual has an outstanding query for you-individual.
Yes, Dee-six-twenty-four-prime? Ask your question.
When we-collective initialized language-idea-exchange with you-collective, you-collective had no settlements on the surface of other planets in your-collective own star system.
Yet you-collective possessed advanced chemical propulsion technology sufficient to leave your-collective native gravity well. For over a hundred cycles around your-collective star, you-collective possessed this.
Why did you not use it?
Well, all that technology was worth a lot of money.
Value-consideration-tokens, yes. Continue.
So we decided to take it away from the really talented geniuses who built, break it up for parts, sell the parts, and throw a big free stuff party.
A … free stuff party?
Yeah, for like, average dudes. The kind of guys who don’t know calculus or anything. The ones you’d want to have a beer with. We thought we’d buy them some stuff.
Instead of leaving your home planet?
Yeah.
This-individual understands, now. Conclusions have been submitted to collective-thought-matrix. Please line you-collective up in an orderly fashion for processing, classification, and reassignment and/or biomass reclamation.
