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Don’t Eat the Rich, Starve Them

High Agency In 30 Minutes

Real humans are weird and contradictory. They have random obsessions that don't fit their "brand." They go through phases. They abandon hobbies and pick them back up years later.

They contain multitudes, and those multitudes don't need to have a coherent narrative thread.

Projects let you be gloriously non-linear. You don't have to turn every... See more

Michelle Pellizzon Lipsitz • be more confusing, actually

Maybe I’m interesting and confusing enough that I can’t be replaced by AI!

For the greater part of human history, and in places in the world today, common resources were the rule. But some invented a different story, a social construct in which everything is commodity to be bought and sold. The market economy story has spread like wildfire, with uneven results for human well-being and devastation for the natural world.

I would love to learn how to live more like this. To think more about what I can give to the community, how I can be a better villager. I’m excited by the idea of living in a community that helps each other out. I want to be someone who hosts events or who people come to for help.

But there is another side of me who is afraid to fall behind. Money is a resource I need to exist in this world and I cannot will that away by telling another story. So I feel like whenever I think of something nice to do for other people I automatically also think about how to monetize it, even thought that was not my immediate intention.

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