THE BOOK OF THE VIP
ADAM
Adam has some big ideas
Chapter 2
The way cAdam looked at it,
2There was something called dcapital that could be very very useful,
3Meaning that if you had some capital,
4Like, say, a great big pile of emoney,
5You could use it to make things that people wanted or needed,
6Like, say, fclothes,
7Out of other things that people didn’t want or need quite as much,
8Like, say, graw cotton fibers,
9Which meant that the new things would be more valuable than the things they were made out of,
10Even when you added in the cost of making the new things out of the other things.
11The more Adam thought about it, the more it seemed like he might be onto something,
12Because the difference between the value of the new thing and the cost of making it,
13Including the cost of buying the things the new thing was made out of,
14Was something that didn’t exist before,
15Which meant that it was brand-new value,
16And should have a hname of its own,
17Which Adam gave it,
18And didn’t even name it after himself,
19But called it “wealth” instead.
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