Word: atm
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ATM is the sort of machine that even a Luddite can love. You slide in a card, punch a few digits, and out spurts cash. It's so simple and elegant that-well, it's an affront to a dynamic capitalist society. And it's all about to change. Someday soon, when you just want to score five Andrew Jacksons so you can have dinner at that great little place that doesn't take Visa, you could find yourself in a very slow line behind people sending flowers to Mom or arguing over which seats to buy for the next...
...with Lek and Tip over a few days, our sense of being impartial observers gave way to concern that just by watching the children's degradation, we were implicated. Then it occurred to us that we could buy their freedom. That's how we found ourselves driving to an ATM, and withdrawing 41,000 baht...
...ATM available...
Keycard swipe device also functions as ATM...
...That's how Jonathan and I found ourselves driving to the ATM, withdrawing $930 - 41,000 baht - and buying Lek and Tip. It wasn't merely the prospect of these two children steadily building up their collection of chips over the next decade that compelled us. It was partially witnessing the despair of the other girls who had buried all hope with their childhoods. Girls like Pim, who works in a brothel a few meters up the road...