with such effective monitoring capabilities placed at the disposal of the political establishment, there was on the other hand nearly unanimous agreement that the ensuing economic benefits would be immense for Libertyville@Esperantia.
By enabling intelligent communication between an individual’s ZipperCard and his or her respective VitaMeter, it would for the first time in history be possible to tailor the entire spectrum of logistic requirements necessitated by a thriving consumer economy to real-time data directly identifying and linking the consumer to his or her economic transactions.
But the benefits didn’t stop there. The advent of this technology was just a first modest step about to culminate in a giant leap toward the thus far elusive goal of widespread consistent socially responsible economic behavior.
By tailoring the utilization of this technology in such a manner that it could be implemented to encourage consumer spending habits oriented toward meritorious products and services that were deemed to be advantageous to the health of the citizenry or simply toward the financial structure of the state, Libertyville@Esperantia could simultaneously increase its own revenue substantially and minimize costs for the health care system. Because of the associated immense savings that this could potentially translate into, successful application of this technology would ultimately give each and every citizen more and better services in return for a smaller percentage of their tax revenues. This was, from the onset, an incredibly popular selling point and ultimately paved the way for the successful introduction of legislation making the implantation of the VitaMeter mandatory for all citizens and long-term residents.
The truly ingenious key to this system would be the successful linkage between certain consumption patterns–without exception defined and accepted to be healthy or socially beneficial by an independently appointed monitoring commission reporting directly to a cabinet-level officer of the government–and a marked reduction in the rate of biological aging through carefully targeted manipulation of telomerase enzymes to ensure that the strands of DNA contained within the chromosomes wouldn’t be expended as the cells divided. Replenishing the DNA in this fashion was not dissimilar to continually adding wick to a burning candle, allowing it to burn indefinitely: as long as the depletion of the DNA strands necessary for cell division was slowed down significantly or even halted altogether, the cells, and thus the overall organism, were not forced to age in the normal process of regeneration.
To enhance the overall public acceptance of this huge technical revolution, a splendid bash was thrown on the day of its introduction, complete with balloons, free beer, laser light shows, brilliant fireworks displays and buxomly lasses adorned with bold-lettered CASH SUCKS! slogans emblazoned across their barely concealed boobs.
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