Building Relationships and the Abundance of Life

I’m convinced that the key to prosperity is in building relationships and trade with others.

The most recent Sketchplanations post, The Butcher, the Brewer, the Baker, shows the concept intuitively. When the Butcher, the Brewer, and the Baker don’t talk and don’t trade, everyone is poorer. You have the Butcher with her surplus of meat just sitting around having a carnivore diet and never being able to enjoy a good meal with beer and bread. Then you have the Brewer, with his surplus of beer, b...