A wonderful. hard-hitting, no-nonsense essay. Thank you! And thank you especially for bringing the luminous insights of Joanna Macy to a wider audience. Bravissima! The only thing I would add to what you've said is this: Look up information on the Eight Forms of Capital, which has become an integral part of the Permaculture corpus. Most people assume that "Capital" and "Money" are the same thing, but in fact, there are (at least) eight different forms of capital, that is, resources, outer and inner, individual and collective, that we can trade on: Physical, Biological, Social, Experiential, Intellectual, Spiritual, Cultural, and of course, Financial (which most people mistake as the ONLY kind...). And the good news is that many of these--Biological, Social, Experiential, Intellectual, Spiritual, and Cultural--are regenerative and Positive Sum, meaning that when we share them, we do not lose them, and in fact can build them up through sharing. The only Zero-Sum (i.e. if you have it, I don't) forms of capital are material and financial.) Google "Eight Forms of Capital" or read Toby Hemenway's brilliant book "The Permaculture City" for further elaboration. To a large extent, we can "make a living" by making a life--by learning, teaching, healing, creating, and sharing. That's the secret that corporate bosses DON'T want people to know!