Care (verb)

To look after and provide for the needs of. E.g. "he has numerous animals to care for"
To feel concern or interest; to attach importance to something. E.g. "they don't care about human life"

N.b. whereas the first definition refers to duties the second relates more to emotions.

This glossary entry mainly focuses on the second definition
The opposite term neglect can be applied to both of these different senses of care.

If we apply the first definition it would be reasonable to assume that we can 'buy'' care.
However, this is questionable if we are referring to care in the second sense.
In the last 10k years, humans tend to opt for control & certainty over complexity and ambiguity.
The quest for imperial stability created order from standards, laws, categories and things.
In this summative flatland of quantification everything is judged by dimensions, proportions and ratios.
Success in achieving this has reduced many natural diversities (including ecodiversity).
But it seems to have shifted our dependency from (local) responsibility to accountability

Few would disagree that current Development Aid funding bid systems are, at best, sub-optimal.
However, they deliver administrative transparency, explicitness and controllability.
These qualities closely resemble those found in unit-based money.
e.g. Accountability works by focusing only on locally convenient parts of the big picture.
- See money loosely defined in the Glossary