Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 140
Investment Simulator
There are ideas that shout. Investment Simulator is not one of them. It waits quietly until the day you need it.
The idea is simple, and like most simple ideas it is easy to nod at and hard to use. The nod is free. The use costs attention, every day, in small change.
Watch two shopkeepers in the same lane during a lean month. One cuts quality, the other cuts margin. In a year, one has customers and the other has stock.
Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. And when you forget it — you will — the world will remind you. It is a faithful tutor.