Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 175

NiNi Generation

NiNi Generation is a lens. Nothing in the world changes when you pick it up, but quite a lot becomes visible.

It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.

Ask the LIC agent at your door and the trader at his terminal — both will tell you the same thing in different clothes: money listens to discipline and laughs at moods.

Money is a good clerk and a terrible master; the arrangement is entirely up to us. The idea has done its job if, the next time it happens to you, you smile before you react.