Let’s bring back bartering

Embracing alternate economies.

One of the more radical books I read in recent years was Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World, in which the author Jason Hickel makes the case for “how we can shift from an economy that’s organized around domination and extraction to one that’s rooted in reciprocity with the living world.”¹ When I read it in 2021, I was working on product round…