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Sunday, September 29, 2013

Today's #flashfiction #TradingTheOceanAway

“And you can quote me on that one.”
The Raven* #quote


         Today I hung out with my bro. This is of significance because he came back from a trip to Oregon for his job. It was a fun time. He has to leave again but then he'll be back pretty much forever. He had many a tale to tell from his trip but yeah, most ya readers don't have the context for it. Just assume he fought ninjas. Anyway onto the flash fiction!


Trading The Ocean Away

        What is the worth of the oceans to the future to humanity's property and that of another world? In the year 2200 an alien race came to Earth with a plight and a bargain, two of humanities favorite things. After all, what human could resist helping someone else for a massive profit?
        The trade would be for our oceans. Pacific and Atlantic. Their planet became uninhabitable due to a massive meteor strike moving the planet's orbit and making it too cold for them. They came here. In exchange for domain of the seas they would give us all the technology for travel through space, the secrets to clean energy, and so much more. They became the merchants of the seas of course, but still a bargain, we got new shippers!
       Sure as humanity forfeited the ocean the aliens replaced our shippers and fisherman and fisherwomen and they lost jobs as did everyone else in the ocean buisness. Many survived the strife moving to jobs provided by moving to new technology but the ripple effect destroyed many's savings and lives in a generation as it became difficult to recover from their political effect. (All non-clean energy jobs were destroyed as well). After thirty years the job system recovered with the job distribution changing, but those years involved many people scrambling for job slots as cities and towns revolved around power businesses collapsed.
     But in the end a species was saved at a bargain for the whole human race to benefit as well. Who needs the ocean anyhow when you have all the amazing alien technology? Win-win in the end right?

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