Dichotomies Money values vs. Life values

Exploitation / dignity

centralized control / democratic decision making

commodification / sacredness

privatization / the global commons

corporatization / collective responsibility

shareholders / stakeholders

output / throughput

disposable / renewable

mechanistic models / organic models

information / wisdom

productivity / prosperity

consumers / citizens

spectator / participant

global economy / local economies

extraction / restoration

monoculture / diversity

transferrable wealth / replenishable wealth

property / ecosystem

alienation from nature / earth centered values

absentee landlordism / stewardship

ecological illiteracy / biocentrism

proxy decision making / real democracy

short term gain / sustainability

narrow economic indicators / full cost accounting

artificial scarcity / abundance

inequitable distribution / economic justice

corporate rule / global justice

empire / community

The System / systemic change

From:
Journal of Aesthetics & Protest