Returns

You invest in missed bedtimes

You invest in children raised by strangers

You invest in show homes minus living

You invest in unwritten prose

You invest in unread poems

You invest in Facebook friendships

You invest in the daily grind

You invest in old age waiting homes

You invest in call centres

You invest in diffused responsibility

You invest in people not humanity

You invest in built-in obsolescence

You invest in wedding days

You invest in days spent apart

You invest in plastic-lidded coffee rush

You invest in fear

You invest in gated keep out the communities

You invest in immigration checks

You invest in land parcelling

You invest in cash crops

You invest in intellectual copyright

You invest in regime change

You invest in regime unchange

You invest in ignorance

You invest in missed bedtimes

You invest in missed lifetimes

The value of investments may go down as well as up

And you may not get back the full amount invested