If I had to choose one thing in the past year that’s inspired me and renewed my appreciation for life, it’s this short film with Charles Eisenstein. It’s an extremely complicated problem to solve, but Eisenstein discusses money systems from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism and how we might correct our system to heal our world. As disenfranchised as I grow with the way the world works, it reminds me that there is hope and that accepting the current model is for settlers, not dreamers who sense our greatest opportunity. It’s truly something I feel compelled to be involved in so I’m starting by reading his book Sacred Economics.
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