10.14.25: Future Currency: Sleep Tokens

Imagine if hours of sleep became currency. The well-rested rule the world, trading surplus hours for influence. The poor sell their dreams, literally, staying awake to make ends meet. Sleep clinics turn into banks, complete with alarms and guards. People become obsessed with hoarding REM cycles. Then comes the scandal: forged naps flood the system, fake sleep hours destabilizing economies. Whole nations collapse, not from war, but from collective exhaustion. The irony is brutal. We chase productivity so hard that, in this future, rest itself is the rarest luxury, more valuable than gold. And only the rich can dream.