"Life and death, the cycle never ends."
Life might not be sacred, but it still had "value."
The lives of ordinary people might not be etched into history, nor could they achieve any great feats. Yet simply by existing, simply by living their own lives well, simply by completing the work at hand, they could still leave traces behind and create value.
".If you're alive, you can earn money and pay taxes. You generate economic activity and become part of the financial system, so naturally you have value. Uh, all surplus value has somewhere it belongs."
Lu PingAn had liquidated over four hundred points' worth of assets, but that man had actually possessed over a thousand points.
Lu PingAn had originally thought they would simply scatter to the winds, but his Life Bank was even more excessive than he had expected.
".Was it all confiscated?"
Once a deceased person's estate had no heir, it naturally became the property of "society" and "the public." At that point, it became a public asset of the Life Bank.
The good news was that, in a sense, it had become Lu PingAn's property. At the very least, when he built Rule Buildings in the future, he probably would not need to pay much extra. The increasingly exorbitant maintenance fees finally had a way to pay for themselves.
The even better news was that Lu PingAn's Library and Trading Board would gain plenty of new goods as well.
A stable source of new goods would continuously enrich the entire market. Perhaps he might even stumble upon some treasure that directly enhanced the Courtyard's "rules." That was the best news of all.
Bad news? There was some. It was probably that if Lu PingAn truly wanted to stop being human, his bottom line would sink even