Yeah it’s a game of telephone millennia old. I don’t think it’s too big an ask to meet the universe halfway. Do what you can with what you’ve got, the rest is up to God/the universe/luck or what have you.

I always said God doesn’t need your money. His kids do. And that’s all of us who aren’t out living a Walden lifestyle, relying on bartering… Oh wait, barter is a cumbersome way of exchange, so where goods and services are little fragments of God, too. Or the universe. Or luck.