Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 180

Opportunity Open Market

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

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.

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. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.