Volume 4 · The Ledger and the Loom · Essay 210

Price Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

You may not know the name Price Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, but you know the thing. This page only introduces the two of you formally.

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.

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. The idea has done its job if, the next time it happens to you, you smile before you react.