We have built an economic system that rewards accumulation over reciprocity and competition over cooperation. This insanity has become so culturally normal that many don't see it as problematic at all. In fact, the religion of this type of economic success has made it so we don't even question whether this is healthy or not.

In a healthy living system, resources circulate to sustain the whole. When wealth becomes concentrated in the hands of a few while others go without, it's a clear sign of deeper failure of our relationship with one another and the living world.

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