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The economy is important because we don’t care enough about one another and our environment.
If we did, we would figure out how to treat each other well, how to grow individually and collectively, and how to take care of our environment in the process. With or without “the economy.”
Instead, we’ve focused so much on property and trade and money and economics and got so accustomed to money as something we can exchange into anything we want, that we've forgotten both what we need (like healthy communities and a healthy environment) and that alternatives exist.
With property, trade, money, economics having long been ubiquitous and all everyone ever worries and talks about, we have nearly fully alienated ourselves from each other.
Add to this our crisis of trust and truth, and we end up with a vicious circle: Because we’re increasingly alienated from each other, we find even more solace in money as the means to exchange it into anything we need or think we need.
The world is literally heating up in consequence.
What’s the answer?
