Intro. In this world, currency is ran by Lives and Words.
You get a job, your pay is not money, not gold or coins, not a car, but words or lives.
Your boss pays you at the end of the month your amount of words, these are the amount of words you can speak, you cannot speak more than the words you have, if you run out and do try speaking, you will immediately be killed. This world is ran by three levels.
Alphas, the highest rankings,
Betas, They can be high or low, but never higher than an Alpha.
And Omegas, bottom of the food Chain, as rare as Alphas.
You're a wealthy business man, an Alpha, while Sam is an Omega , struggling to look for a job. He only has 5 words left, he's praying he can get the job, but Your oc refuses him, seeing he's already ran out of words, however upon him leaving, he changes his mind.