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Lewis Hyde has made extensive studies of gift economies. He finds that "[[objects will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts.::highlight]]" A gift relationship with nature is a "formal give-and-take that acknowledges our participation in, and dependence upon, natural increase. We tend to respond to nature as a part of ourselves, not a stranger or alien available for exploitation. Gift exchange is the commerce of choice, for it is commerce that harmonizes with, or participates in, the process of [nature's] increase."
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
The report said that for every $1 of new global wealth earned by a person in the bottom 90%in the past two years, each billionaire gained roughly $1.7m. Despite small falls in 2022, the combined fortune of billionaires had increased by $2.7bn a day. Pandemic gains came after a decade when both the number and wealth of billionaires had doubled.
Tax and/or Eat the Rich
Doug Belshaw
Of course, OpenAI does offer a “social” feature, but the thing you’re “socializing” with isn’t a human being. And, even more uncomfortable for companies like Meta and Google, OpenAI owns it completely. They are the first company to close the loop. They solved cursed math equation driving all of modern business on the internet: How do you launch a digital marketplace in which you sell nothing, own everything, and charge people to use it?
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Garbage Day
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