Investment is generally taken to mean following a strategy that allows us to siphon off value. A way of taking value from a living system and turning it into a quantity of abstract financial counters that we can then hold so as to use these at will to gain advantage. We strip a living web of relationships and use the power this gives us to defend the precariousness of our isolation by cocooning our selves from the consequences. For most cultures that have ever lived this type of activity has been prohibited or at least looked down on as a destructive as well as a selfish act. In these cultures and societies people have understood that value, even of the most prosaic and pragmatic sort, cannot be maintained without trust existing among the people involved. Even the term,