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Money is for buying back the parts of life the world has taken from you, and protecting the parts it might still take. The closing of Vitamin M.

Ten dull, accumulated capacities separate people who can reliably produce money from people who cannot. None of them are glamorous. All of them compound.

There are only four sources of money in the entire world. Once you see them clearly, the noise quietens.

Money is the only nutrient on earth you cannot buy without already having some. Four layers of an old question, one honest answer. Day 4 of the Vitamin M series.

A Vitamin M deficiency does not look like the absence of luxury. It looks like the contraction of a life. Five places it shows up, and one Singaporean version we do not advertise. Day 3 of the Vitamin M series.

The line that money cannot buy happiness is comforting and incomplete. Day 2 of the Vitamin M series, on what we lose when we pretend we do not need it, and what the post-2021 wellbeing data actually shows.

We test for iron, B12, vitamin D and magnesium. We never test for the deficiency that wakes most of us at 3am. The opening essay in a seven-day series on money, the nutrient we refuse to name.