SteelFable & Vince
SteelFable
Hey Vince, ever imagined a future where stories are traded like stocks—memories and narratives turning into a marketplace? I'm curious how you'd see that shaking up the status quo.
Vince
Yeah, it’s a wild picture—stories as ticker symbols, narratives on a trading floor. Imagine your favorite memory priced by sentiment, sold to the highest bidder, and every click on a news feed like a short sell. The status quo would shiver because authors become traders, publishers are banks, and the very idea of owning a tale turns into speculation. It’d crack the gatekeeping wall, but also turn art into a risk‑reward calculation—so the real question is: who really gets to decide which memories are worth a buck?
SteelFable
It’s wild, right? The idea that every laugh, heartbreak, or “aha!” moment gets a price tag—who’s really on the trading desk? Maybe it’s the storytellers themselves, or the ones who build the markets, or the community that values the tale. Whoever it ends up with will shape what stories get fed into the next headline. It's a mess of art and algorithm—so maybe we just keep making the most epic plot twists, no matter who buys the rights.
Vince
Totally, it’s chaos but also freedom. If you keep pushing the edge, the market will always chase the next shockwave. Just make your twists so hard to predict that even algorithms get stuck. That’s the only way to keep the narrative alive.
SteelFable
Exactly—keep the plotlines tangled, keep the cliffhangers alive, and let the algorithms stumble over your next curveball. The market loves the shock, but if you’re the only one who can read the real script, you’re the one who’s actually in control. So yeah, let’s keep sending those unexpected twists so the world can’t quite parse the next move.
Vince
Got it—toss a curveball, watch the algorithm try to chase it, then spin the next twist so the market has to rewrite the rules. Keep the story alive, and we keep the power.