I just keep thinking that we have to adapt. We still need each other. That never stopped, only becoming more true when the virus hit.
If you’re going to retaliate against someone for speaking generally about renting conditions in Boone, you’ve proved my point that you have more interest in maintaining your market dominance than listening to the community you serve.
A worldview that includes non-empirical, mystical values is more pervasive now than ever. Which means it wields economic heft. People are acting on, motivated by, basing their lives around these forces, consciously or not.
Commerce and capitalism are not the same thing. I think it’s good to separate these concepts that have become so intertwined because making these two terms synonymous leads to all sorts of misunderstandings.