The Free-a-Ton
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A new take on the very old Free-a-ton concept.<br><br>For those new to Free-a-Tons, here's the very basic rundown.<br><br>* A portion of the population has superpowers.<br>* Everyone only has one unique superpower.<br>* There is no upper limit to how much someone can use their power.<br>* No one can choose what their powers are, and it's completely randomness. <br>* Superpowers are genetic.<br>* Superpowers can be passed down, and are automatically expressed in everyone.<br><br>In the Free-a-Ton world, everyone is classified based on how useful their power is in different areas of life.<br><br>* **Primary Workforce** - Their powers are so useful, that they can easily make a living with their powers with very little additional work. (For example, people who can create any material can very easily get a good paying job, since they can create the materials needed for their job.)<br>* **Support Workforce** - While their powers aren't very useful for a career, they can easily get a job and provide for themselves. (For example, people who can automatically know the temperature right down to a hundredth of a degree. It's not very useful, but you can easily use that information to make money.)<br>* **Service-Based Workforce** - They are able to make a living for themselves through services they offer. (For example, people who have perfect pitch-a-tone hearing, are very valuable musically. They can teach singing, or even sell their own music.)<br>* **Dependent Workforce** - Their powers are so useless, that they can't provide for themselves with their powers alone. They need to either find a career that doesn't leverage their powers, which can be difficult to find a good paying one, or they need to pair up with someone with a useful power, and benefit from their powers indirectly.<br><br>For example, a high school in the Free-a-Ton counts how many students from each category are in the school.<br><br>* 1/3 students are Primary.<br>* 1/3 students are Support.<br>* 1/4 students are Service.<br>* the remaining 1/12 students are Dependent.<br><br>This helps the school know how to properly prepare students for their lives ahead.
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