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On the RIM, then, structural transformation is made possible when all individuals throughout the entire system push the boundaries of their social roles, even outside of acute conflicts involving specific powerful agents.
What Is My Role in Changing the System? A New Model of Responsibility for Structural Injustice
Robin Zheng
Thou shalt not have antifragility at the expense of the fragility of others.
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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
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