Folks,
Suspend your disbelief for a moment and join me in this thought...
Imagine that one day we all woke up to the inexplicable discovery that the Sun
Sol
The Daystar
The centre about which our solar system rotates
That fiery ball of life-sustaining stellar nucleosynthesis
Imagine we learnt that it was, in reality, a sentient being
That it could communicate with us
And in fact, that it had been trying to for a long time
...
Imagine that we were too ignorant to understand this
Not much of a stretch to be honest
And that it had been waiting patiently for the day we finally developed to the point where we could
And then imagine, having witnessed the way we humans act upon our little blue-green planet
And within our petty gray-black economies
The Sun decided that it too was going to start charging for it's service
The service it provides to the Earth's biosphere
And if the hordes of hairless apes living on that planet
Those creatures so hopelessly and arrogantly dependent upon the warmth and light it tirelessly provides, failed to pay up
Then it would go somewhere else in the unfathomably large cosmic marketplace
And sell it's service to another client species that were willing to pay a fair price
...
Imagine that...