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RE: Communicating Needs and the Art of Listening - Ecotrain's Question of the Week
Some real food for thought here. In a way we've also gone from appreciating what another does for us to expecting others to do things for us, via this economy where we can purchase whatever we need or want.
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Right, and it's killing our naturally innate sense of caring and sharing, which may seem selfless, but ultimately we do out of self interest. The more I give the more I'll get, so to speak. Kinda like when I upvote a post, on one hand I want to support good content, on the other hand I look forward to the reward. But if you reduce human relationships to merely monetary transactions, you kill the interaction before it even had a chance to start. The worst part is, because all (fiat!) money is based on debt with a certain interest that has to be paid, the number of people interacting also gets reduced gradually. It almost seems like the system wants to nullify human relationships!