Money Puddles

No matter where we direct it or what our intention is, money forms puddles. In those puddles, we find organisations where money gathers not by virtue but by design. The financial services industry, the banking sector, and those who enforce and protect them and the rules they play by from all manner of security to the politicians inextricably connected to them. In between the puddles are the areas from which the money drains into those puddles - public healthcare, education,and social services amongst them. No matter how much money we direct at them, it finds its way into the puddles.

It would be satisfying to say that those splashing around in the puddles are bad people. The trouble is, they're not (well, the vast majority anyway - we can all think of exceptions that prove the rule). It struck me forcibly when I spent time with people from some of the puddles at play - real play, creative, generative, imaginative, absorbing, engaging play. They were using money but not flaunting it, wi…