"I dunno." He looks to his mom again. 

"Does your mom pay for all your drawing supplies and stuff?"

"Yeah. And toys and things."

"What kinda toys do you have?"

"I have little fast aminals. A bird and a cat and a snake and an ant and a worm. And I have a wagon they go on. And I have little people. And I have a little fairy court the people pretend to live in. It's pretending because they aren't real people so everything they do is pretending. And I have a ball that rolls, and blocks."

"Sounds pretty good. Do your parents tell you stories?"

"Yeah."

"What's your favorite one?"

"I don't remember."

"Is there one you like and do remember?"

"I like all of them."

"Wow, all of them?"

"ALL the stories."

When Econ Faery is up the next subjective... wake... time..., Cam finds him and says, "I got to meet a kid. Didn't seem too worrying to chat with him, but then my first guess about why faeries are how faeries are would not in fact have been 'child neglect' based on talking to adults either, so I don't know exactly how to count it."

"I'm curious what your first guess was."

"Uh, 'just kind of like that as a species inherently' followed by 'sensing debt alone does this, it's sensorily compelling in some way'."

"Some people report really disliking the feeling of running debt - in either direction - but that's not typical. More people report enjoying the physical sensation of debt running the right way but I think that's probably mostly downstream of the ways it's socially important and useful. Most people dislike the experience of someone else doing something that sharply increases debt - like lying to you or breaking your stuff or refusing a request or whatever - but again, that's hard to separate from the implications that has and the kinds of contexts in which you'd experience it."

"Something doesn't necessarily have to be conspicuous to be sensorily compelling in the way I mean. You can condition a human into stuff with very small stimuli."

"Huh! Then maybe that does affect us."

"I mean, I'd be surprised if it didn't, I just don't know how much to attribute to it. I'll be fascinated to see how the certificates work out though, being able to settle things quickly and impersonally without further negotiation seems like it could make everything sting less."

"I really really hope so."

"I could imagine it making some things worse. Sometimes if you have a rule against a thing, and there's some people breaking the rule occasionally, and then you impose a fine on that with the intent of reducing the behavior, people are just like 'oh, that's what it costs to do this thing if I feel like it' and do it more - which is frustrating enough when you can just jack up the fine, and may be worse if you're stuck with the debt system assessment of the matter and can't even do that. I could see someone hating being lied to enough that getting a wad of cash didn't cut it and I could also see some people being willing to lie - out of spite maybe, even though you can't really do it to deceive - once they'd be able to predict the cost to themselves."

"I mean, lying's different, it causes misfortune, not just debt. No one considers a lie settled when it's debt value is, if it was intentional and there's entanglement."

"Same principle applies to other things. Being careless around fragile stuff, maybe. When I got first summoned I used a figure of speech that counted as a lie and the guy started hitting me and kicking me, it was really confusing!"

"Wow. He sounds like - an unfortunate first person to meet. I guess smart people mostly don't do experiments with some one in a thousand chance of getting them killed."