Reciprocity has become one of the most fraught words at the Farmastery. Everyone nods along, but underneath the agreement is a collective flinch — because most of us still reach for a ledger when someone hands us a shovel. But what if the forest’s accounting is older and wiser than ours?
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The Great Withholding: it’s a feature, not a bug.
The economy doesn’t malfunction — it performs exactly as designed. A small number of people sit on the resources everyone else needs, and in exchange for not letting us starve, they extract our labour. Colonial capitalism is feudalism in a three-piece suit. But something else is taking root in the cracks.
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