Haven't you ever been to someone else's house before?

I've been to lots of houses. I can show you what they looked like if you want.

OK!

This is the house next to ours! They're a married couple with no children yet - Notellë carves musical instruments and Aroronto collects flowers. 

That looks like a rich person house. I guess sometimes rich people have houses that are kind of like art.

What's a rich person?

People who have more money than everybody else.

What's money?

Money's what you use to buy things! Like food and toys and books and houses and clothes and candy and probably spaceships except I'm not sure what a spaceship costs. Didn't you wonder why grownups go to work all day?

No? I think they would get frustrated and unhappy if they weren't allowed to work on things at all until their kids grew up, though.

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.