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There are models of development that already exist in developing countries that actually are much more sustainable than the model of free markets that we have been trying to export.

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The question is: why are there markets of food at all?

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

The problem is that we are living now with the consequences of the others people mistake. It would be nice to make our own and learn from them. That is the art of democracy. That is the art of citizenship.

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