Robin Wall Kimmerer
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In dispraise of efficiency.
Contemporary economic interests seek greater & greater efficiency, but the most meaningful moments in our lives are the inefficient tasks to which we devote our time.
assembly line, beautiful ones, behavioral sink, biology, Capital, capital gains, capitalism, cell biology, cell division, chores, communication, comparative advantage, economics, efficiency, factory model, function of earth, function of life, health, Henry Ford, immortality, in the belly of my brother, John Calhoun, last universal common ancestor, Mary Oliver, metabolism, mitochondria, mouse dystopia, mouse utopia, opportunity cost, philosophy, photon scattering, quotidian time, Robin Wall Kimmerer, science, slow fire, specialization, store my food in the belly of my brother, The Serviceberry, wild and precious life
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On trust and money.
In economics textbooks, the origin of money is often described as a replacement for barter. Silly examples are given: if you raise cows and need a hammer, you have to find someone who has an extra hammer and specifically wants cows. You might travel all across town with a cow in tow, searching for someone…
addiction, barter, Braiding Sweetgrass, Buterin, community, consumption, cryptocurrency, currency, Ethereum, Frank Bidard, gift economics, Hernan Diaz, hoarding, late fees, Magic the Gathering, monetary exchange, money, money versus barter, non-disclosure agreement, origin of money, overconsumption, Price of Crypto, promise, reparations, resource transfer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, social contract, social network, Third Hour of the Night, tragedy of the commons, Trevor Jackson, trust, Trust novel, vampire bats, wealth, Windigo, Windigo economics
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