Second Earth 4 by L D P Samways

Author:L D P Samways [Samways, L D P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Purple Book Co.
Published: 2016-04-10T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Hutchison arrived at the dockyard. He was in awe of the sights and sounds around him. Hundreds of ships lay hovering in their docs, some of them being worked on by workers, others being boarded by passengers for long-haul flights. Virgin Galactic had a few routes through the dock. Hutchison remembered flying with them when he was a little boy. From this very dock he took off on his first ever family vacation. They went to see the springs on Venus. Back then, Venus was a big vacation planet. Virgin Galactic did a few package holidays to the wondrous planet. This was obviously before the big financial crash. The crash that affected nearly every single being on planet Earth. From the livestock, to the wildlife, to the humans. Every creature big and small was affected by the sudden lack of cash.

Farmers went out of business. Cattle died of hunger. Children went barefoot to school. Parents worked three to four jobs to put food on the table. And things continued like that for a few years. And then out of the blue, it was all over. Hutchison remembers thinking how odd it was that life could change so dramatically within the blink of a few years. One minute; Earth had been prosperous. Next it had been blanketed by a financial crisis that affected every single person on the big blue planet that they called home.

And then it all went back to normal again. Things were different this time. It was the complete opposite of the financial crisis. It was prosperity on a level that Hutchison had never seen before. Suddenly, there was money. There were jobs. The minimum wage had gone up tenfold. Factories were hiring at an astounding rate. Ships needed more Captains and deckhands. Fleets needed more vehicles to be made. It was a prosperous time, a time that has gone on until now.

People wondered what had changed. Professional analysts were trying to point the finger of blame on the banks. The banks after all were usually the culprits of much of the world’s poverty. But the thing the analysts found harder to believe was the fact that there seemed to be no more poverty. It had vanished into thin air, much like the steam coming out of one of the many new factories being built on the free land that remained.

Steam held the secret to the world’s prosperity. The thing is, Hutchison nor the rest of the world were quite aware of the reasoning behind Earth’s newfound riches. Nobody knew about the resource. The so-called blackness. And for the past fifteen years, the world turned a blind eye to their new found luck. Luck that had made many millionaires. Luck that had made all the other people on Earth wealthy enough to afford anything they could ever need or want.

People were paid well now. It was like a switch had gone off. A switch that reset everything that society since the dawn of man had gotten wrong. Now there was no wrong.

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