SALE

$0.04

a minute of attention

Sold at auction every time you unlock your phone. The going rate is fluorescent and falling.

COST

262,000

a human kidney (black market, Manila, 2023)

Quoted in USD. Excluding the surgeon, the silence, and the rest of the body it leaves behind.

VALUE

FREE

the silence after a question you should not have asked

Goes for nothing. Worth more than anything you could have said instead.

DEAL

7,200

hours of sleep, traded over twenty years

For ambition, for newborns, for someone who never asked for them. Non-refundable.

URGENT

incalculable

a mass extinction (in progress)

No vendor will quote a number. The line is always “ask later”. Later never comes.

FINAL

$4.50

a paper cup of coffee

The water cost a cent. The bean cost six cents. The rest is rent, marketing, and the ghost of a barista you will never meet.

CLEARANCE

0.003 BTC

your name in someone’s contacts

Listed under nothing in particular. Worth the same whether they answer or not.

BARGAIN

everything

the cost of forgetting on purpose

Paid up front, in installments, for the rest of your life. The receipt is unreadable.