Clarifying The Gift Economy: What It Is And Isn't, By Carolyn Baker
If everything is free, you don’t need to struggle with your relationship with money, and I don’t need to struggle with mine.
The Tyranny of Entitlement, By Derrick Jensen
I’M CONTINUALLY stunned by how many seemingly sane people believe you can have infinite economic growth on a finite planet. Perpetual economic growth and its cousin, limitless technological expansion, are beliefs so deeply held by so many in this culture that they often go entirely unquestioned. Even more disturbing is the fact that these beliefs are somehow seen as the ultimate definition of what it is to be human: perpetual economic growth and limitless technological expansion are what we do.