1. When we make a phone call we later pay for it. When we buy pre-paid phone credit, however, we allow the seller to tell us we have to use it within a short period of time. If we do not make the call in time, we have paid for nothing.
2. When our bank account balance drops to -$0.02 for one day, our bank charges us $30. It does not cost the bank $30 to lend us two cents for one day, and this most often happens due to murky direct debit systems we did not personally design.
3. When we see inequities occur in our small corner of the world, we often keep quiet to prevent bad feelings washing onto us. To speak out is to attract negative attention, and eliminate ourselves from being part of the team, or a particular social circle.
4. When we spend $100 on a video game, we spend the first two hours painfully unlocking the weapons, characters, maps, songs or costumes that we wish to use, that we have already paid for.
5. When inequities befall an entire community, we do not mobilise and attempt all we can to reverse it, or present its reoccurrence. This is hardly surprising, given the nest of smaller inequities that exist, but it is saddening.
Stefan tells stories, writes about stories and tells stories about stories.
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