>>6157002>>6157146>spacecraft UPMASS CARRIED BY LAUNCH as currencyI saw SpaceX boastfully citing these statistics the other day, so I suppose as a monetary measure escaping the gravity well this is sort of happening hehe
I actually had an interesting thought about this, because in my COSMOGONY game setting I invented this faction with a lot of lore that anons chose to never interact with in the game lol but basically they are a SPACE CULTIST faction called the Cislunarites / Cislunarian Church, they believe that Gravity is a sin or a demonic entity lol (think, humans cannot Fall if there is no gravity hehe) so they strive to encourage all humans to Transition beyond the gravity well and live in strange cult commune microgravity orbital ring habitats
So after seeing that Elon Musk SpaceX upmass bragging, I realised, you could combine this with my Gravity/Demon/Guilt/Sin space cult lore. Because one of the nefarious old medieval practices was simony, or selling indulgences etc so if upmass becomes a monetary measure then charging money to escape the gravity well / burden of sin becomes the ultimate act of pilgrimage hehe.
Anyway in my convoluted demented lore worldbuilding I think the point is it is not particularly the mechanics of money but these sociocultural moralistic embeddings and value judgements that make it interesting, so Church Indulgences (eg if you are in a fantasy or demonic flagellant / possessed warpriest heretic crusade setting etc) is a good one, there are probably others but it is the act of social exchange bargaining and moral judgement that makes the money interesting not necessarily the tokens or underlying commodities themselves
