Sincere Market

In 2042, humans invented the "emotion visualization device". From now on, every emotion, joy, anger, sadness, fear, and thought, can be quantified, extracted, stored, and traded. Emotion Coin was born. Some people sell their fear in exchange for the first start-up capital in their lives; some people buy joy and survive the most difficult interview. Some people have relied on this technology to cure depression for twenty years, and some people have used it to bring back their broken families. At first, everyone said this was technology's greatest goodwill. Until someone discovered: Your emotional data is being priced by algorithms in real time. In the casino, people wearing regulators turned up the pleasure to 300%, lost all their savings, slumped in their chairs, and couldn't even cry. The paralysis hospital opened next door to the casino. The patient was smiling when he signed - that was the last remaining expression after being drained of emotion. The temple purchased a large number of "joy coins" to spread out, the believers burst into tears, and the donation boxes were filled with cash. Some reporters began to pursue this line. There are traders who liquidate all their positions on the eve of a market crash. There is a small party that only says one sentence from beginning to end: "Emotions are not commodities." No one paid any attention to them. This is a story about emotional trading. An era in which even "sincerity" can be put on the market. A group of people caught up in the wave and thrown off by the wave. And one thing they never sold. Emotions have a price. But some deals never close.