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These two economic worldviews, of prosperity gained through individual accumulation and prosperity gained through sharing of the commons, underpin the history of colonization
Robin Wall Kimmerer • The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance
A whole industry arose to protect the empty properties of those who were able to go into hibernation; heaven forfend that the unhoused have any opportunity to change their situation.
Chelsea Vowel • Buffalo Is the New Buffalo
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Mary Martin • 1 card
Ce qu’il faut ici comprendre, c’est que, bien que répondant magnifiquement à tous ses besoins essentiels, elle ne créait pas de richesse financière. C’est ainsi que, dans le langage de la pseudo-économie, on ne vit pas des biens de la terre, mais de dollars : le dollar traduit le niveau de richesse. Il est heureux qu’un nombre important de communau
... See morePierre Rabhi • Vers la sobriété heureuse: Nouvelle édition (French Edition)
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmereremergencemagazine.org
Twenty years later Brother Gabriel Sagard, a Recollect Friar,15 wrote similar things of the Wendat nation. Sagard was at first highly critical of Wendat life, which he described as inherently sinful (he was obsessed with the idea that Wendat women were all intent on seducing him), but by the end of his sojourn he had come to the conclusion their so
... See moreDavid Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
From the perspective of the Communist Manifesto coauthor Friedrich Engels, however, this indebtedness was just the yoke that capitalists needed to keep labor in line. Home ownership, and the mortgage it required, would be “chaining the worker by his property to the factory in which he works.”
Douglas Rushkoff • Life Inc.

These were tried, and although the charges were not explained, and the accused did not have representation, they were convicted and executed on December 26, 1862, in what is still the largest mass hanging in U.S. history—of members of a sovereign nation who had risen up to expel foreign invaders from their homeland.