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Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier cover image

Alnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy on Post-Capitalist Philanthropy

Frontiers of Commoning, with David Bollier

CHAPTER

The Problem With Capitalist Modernity

The problem is when you're ensconced in large institutions and your identity and education and culture all reinforce that. Even people who want to escape it find it difficult because their livelihoods, their survival, may require participating in it. And so there's kind of a problem of breaking down these invisible structures that keep us emured within them. We have to move to being conscientious objectors of a life-destroying system. But if you want a Wikipedia page and a director title at Google and whatever they're selling on tab, you are going to be trapped by that existing system.

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