Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 38
Buy-To-Solve Tendency
Buy-To-Solve Tendency is a small handle on a large fact. Grip it, and the fact becomes easier to carry.
What this concept offers is a pause — one extra beat between what happens and what you do about it. Civilisation, someone said, is measured in that beat.
The vegetable vendor with a tin box knows what the salaried man with three apps forgets: count the cash at the end of the day, every day, without drama.
Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. You will meet this idea again this week, wearing different clothes. Now you will recognise it.