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Actual studies of how poor people engage with the cash economy, how- ever, reveal a very different sort of relation between money and social re- lationships, one in which money, meaning, and mutuality are entangled rather than antagonistic. To make sense of this entanglement, we need to rethink the relation between “the cash nexus” and various forms of social connection and mutuality. And this rethinking will entail challenging a whole series of conventional oppositions (interest versus obligation, feel- ing versus calculation, altruism versus selfishness, etc.) that ground the traditional Left’s phobic antipathy (as I am increasingly inclined to call it) toward both cash payments and market exchanges.
Give a Man a Fish
James Ferguson
Lately I remember far more books that I haven’t read than those I have. I don’t find this an anomaly, it’s the same as with the unhappened past.
Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
People find pleasure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In accepting and welcoming everything I see. In treating each thing as it deserves.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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