Our Humanity Depends on the Things We Don’t Sell
The market society frames transaction as liberation, even renting and selling women's bodies. But the future lies with those who cultivate non-transactional interdependence.
Sestrjevitovschii Ina/Condrita, Moldova Earlier this year, mining company Rio Tinto dynamited a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal sacred site in the Pilbara region of Australia, in pursuit of the iron ore deposits that lay beneath the sacred caves. The decision triggered outrage from Aboriginal communities and the wider world alike. Pressure from investors concerned about the resulting PR disaster eventually forced the CEO to resign. But that’s not much of a victory for those to whom the now-destroyed site was sacred. As a place of pilgrimage, continuously inhabited since before the last Ice Age, its
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