Charles Eisenstein

Unlike physical goods, the abstraction of money allows us, in principle, to possess unlimited quantities of it.

where a mere number represents the size of the economy.

ignore the limits of nature and culture to accommodate our growth.

or a price, you can buy anything, even the pelt of an endangered species.17

things are reduced to what they are worth

he unlimit of money implies that the realm of the owned can grow indefinitely,

We buy and sell property, things that we own, things that we perceive as belonging to us.

That is because, contrary to the assumptions of economics, biology, political philosophy, psychology, and institutional religion, we are not in essence separate beings having relationships. We are relationship.

Martín Prechtel, speaking of his village in Guatemala,

“I’ve got a fatal liver disease, but that’s just my liver—I am