Basic Money

• Hockett and James write:

        "Every relationship, whether in work, marriage, or friendship,
        in a village or a large society, comes with debts and obligations.
        We owe things to others, they owe things to us." (26)

• We make promises to one another

  • We incur obligations

  • "I 'owe you one'"

  • "I am in your debt"

• We satisfy our promises

  • "We're even. I no longer 'owe you one'"