Chapter 270 Value

"Does capital ever sleep?" Sun Jack murmured to himself as he watched the Neon City in the rain, becoming familiar and three-dimensional from his interactions with the Matrix.

It all seemed rational, yet there was one inconsistency.

"But I still can't figure it out; isn't the value of dumping plunder? But the Holy Grail clearly has everything, so what value do the people of Metropolis have left for them to exploit and loot through dumping?" Sun Jack asked the Digital Personality.

The Digital Personality immediately answered Sun Jack. "Yes, they still have the value of anchoring currency. Don't forget what the currency of the Holy Grail is. It's the mutually exchangeable fusion company stocks. When the currency of the Holy Grail was chosen to be fusion company stocks, the very existence and consumption of the people of Metropolis became the anchor for the Holy Grail's currency, they became the currency itself."