Cooperative rather than competitive economics (Berry)
October 26th, 2006 | Published in Agrarianism, Community, Culture, Ecology, Economics, Quotes
If a culture is to hope for any considerable longevity, then the relationships within it must, in recognition of their interdependence, be predominately cooperative rather than competitive. A people cannot live long at each other’s expense or at the expense of their cultural birthright—just as an agriculture cannot live long at the expense of its soil or its work force, and just as in a natural system the competitions among species must be limited if all are to survive.
–Wendell Berry, “The Agricultural Crisis as a Crisis of Culture” in The Unsettling of America (1972), p. 47