But they wouldn't go to work every day. Except they have to so they can make money.

No, I think they just like working. A lot. Actually I don't know if my grandfather likes working but he has a lot of work so most days he does at least a little of it.

Maybe rich people just work because they feel like it. Aunt Kate and Auntie Karen work almost every day because they have to, though.

Karen did not seem to like her work at all.

Most grownups don't, far as I can tell.

That seems like a bad system. Possibly you should do something else.

Well, they have to work anyway because they need money. And they didn't do well in school, so they don't get to be something cool like a scientist or an engineer or a doctor or a pilot or a zookeeper.

And they need money because...

Cause if you don't have money you can't buy anything and you starve and die. Unless you are a kid in which case I think you go to foster care.

Why would you not be able to eat things if you don't have money?

Because food costs money? People who don't have ANY money have to try to get food out of the trash.

What happened to all of the food in the trees and bushes and growing in the ground?... did you cover all of the ground with streets?

Trees and bushes belong to people too, if you grab fruit off of them without paying for it that's stealing.

I think that maybe those people should share.

Sometimes people share! But if they gave everything away they couldn't make any money, and then they would have food but no house or clothes or whatever.

They could make those.

I don't think most people know how to make those things.

I think I could teach them but I should probably practice first. When I help build houses I don't do any of the hard parts.

You can't teach everyone. There's billions and billions of people.

How many is that?

Do you know how many a hundred is?

No.

A hundred is like if you counted on your fingers, one-two-three-four-five-six-seven-eight-nine-ten, and then you did that on nine more people's fingers, then you would have a hundred fingers. Does that make sense?

- yeah, okay. 

OK!

So a billion is if you make a pile of a hundred things, and you make a hundred piles, and then you put the piles on trays, and you have a hundred trays, and you fit those trays into shelves, and then you have a room of a hundred shelves, and then you have ten rooms of shelves of trays of piles of things. I think. Unless I got confused in there.

And that's about how many people there are. Except more than ten rooms, but I think less than a hundred.