From a greed society to a generosity society?
11th February 2010
This video presents the key ideas of Raj Patel’s new book, The Value of Nothing, and says, ‘the opposite of consumption is not thrift, but generosity’:
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- Øyvind Holmstad: “(The Appendix to this essay reprints a review of Alexander’s “A Pattern Language” that I wrote for Amazon.com).”:...
- Sepp Hasslberger: Great post and good observation by Eric that the word “gift” is really a link into the old type of rigid market....
- Øyvind Holmstad: We just republished an essay from this blog by Nikos Salingaros yesterday, about these themes: - Peer-to-Peer Themes and Urban...
- Øyvind Holmstad: This is EXACTLY what CLASSICAL LIBERALISM is ALL ABOUT: http://www.preservenet.com/cla ssicalliberalism/index.html
- Patrick Anderson: The author writes: > Everyone should earn a profit for their work Profit is never the result of work! Profit is the difference...