Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 228
Rich Ratio
Rich Ratio is a measuring stick. Use it on yourself before you use it on others; the readings are more honest that way.
No single score defines a person, a team, or a year. But a score honestly taken is a mirror, and mirrors, however unkind, are cheaper than self-deception.
Strip it to the floor and you find an old instruction: look carefully, judge slowly, act decently. The new name exists because the old instruction keeps being forgotten.
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. If this page made you think of one specific person, do not send it to them. Apply it to yourself first; that is how these things work.