Every little bit helps
Note: initially published on Medium under the pseudonym Creole You wake up to a slow pulse on your phone. Your PO account has received its monthly payment. You lazily wake the screen and thumb approval to the standard division: 45% (0.00005600 BTC) to mobile wallet [x1f8K…nb7] 50% (0.00006220 BTC) to savings [ICICI x1f9H…m4e] 4.8% (0.00000597 BTC) to MSF_KL [x14hY…8e9] 0.2% maintenance of PO Account [0] That’s just your stake, of course. The rest goes to your mother in Munnar, and some cousins in Trivandrum. The money comes from a variety of sources, which you know because every few weeks you’re obligated by the wallet to flick through a screen containing details of each. You understand: when the State, ASEAN, or some rich billionaire’s kid gives you and a 100 million other people hard cash, they want you to know who to thank. ...