The Price of Vitality
When health becomes currency, no one can afford to pay
They say the system is perfect, but perfection always comes at a cost. I should know—I helped build it.
In the 22nd century, health isn’t just a right, a privilege, or even a commodity. It’s currency. Every breath, every heartbeat, every productive hour has a price tag. And for the vast majority of us, that price isn’t something we pay—it’s something calculated for us, by algorithms so complex even their creators can’t fully explain them anymore. They call them Quality Adjusted Life Years. But who’s quality is it?
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