Charles Eisenstein

For the economy to grow, the realm of money-denominated goods and services must grow too

Money must meet more and more of our needs

one type after another of natural, social, cultural, and spiritual commonwealth is converted into property and money

Identity becomes a commodity, and clothes and other consumer items its proxy.

happens when there are no more fish to turn into seafood, no more forests to turn into paper, no more topsoil to turn into corn syrup, no longer anything people do for each other for free?

The money system we have inherited will always compel us to choose growth over leisure

Even the fashion industry has been part of it, as a means for creating identity and a sense of belonging extending across vast social distances.

, Marx, and George knew, it is immoral to rob someone of his property and then make him pay you to use it.

As the early Christian fathers, Proudhon

As people become aware that merely living in society means contributing to the evils of the world, they often go through a phase of desiring to find a completely isolated and self-sufficient intentional community—but what good does that do, while Rome burns?