Random stories

The hunt for exceptions almost destroyed us.

At first, it was funny to watch, seeing these monsters try every trick in the book to get around it, but the spell counted capital gains, foreign investment income, and even bank accounts under a child's name if you still had access to it.

We treated it like a game show, us poor destitute idiots who worked full time for next to nothing.

We were amused. We laughed at the rich.

But we hadn't understood that just like every other time throughout history, the rich will do *anything* to retain more wealth and power.

Now I'm a millionaire. Sort of. I'm paid $300 an hour. But I had to sign quite a contract to get it. When I am called upon by my "sponsor" I have to use my wealth however they demand. All my money, the savings accounts, the retirement I've set up desperately trying to make sure some of it can go to my family, it's all a sham.

They call us Living Bank Accounts, and like human shields in a battle against decency, the rich use us to scrape together a few more million that they can lay claim to.

But it'll be ok. With access to this much wealth, my donation of a predator drone to the Socialist Liberation Army will go a long way.

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Submitted by MythosTrilogy on Sun, Aug 07, 2022 to /r/WritingPrompts/

The prompt

One day, suddently, no one can have more than 999million dollars. All of the extra money gets magically donated to charity/research/schools. Jeff Bezos gets a Trophy saiyng "I won Capitalism". Describe how the world changes.