Ben Rivers

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As a participant in a traditional culture of gratitude, now with a bucket full of berries in my hand, I’ve never quite understood something about human economics, and that is the primacy of scarcity as an organizing principle. As a person schooled by plants, my fingers stained with berry juice, I’m not willing to give scarcity such a prominent role. Gift economies arise from an understanding of earthly abundance and the gratitude it generates. A perception of abundance, based on the notion that there is enough if we share it, underlies economies of mutual support.
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
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