I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced "Co'burn" cos it's Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks!  We cover: 🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies. 🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy. 🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar. 🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper! 🪶 Will politicians ever "solve" climate change? 🪶 Why you can't question capitalism 🪶 How the growth imperative works 🪶 Changing the narrative through language 🪶 The debt treadmill for "developing" nations 🪶 The closest thing we've had to utopia in human history! 🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling 🪶 Hitting bodily limits 🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel 🪶 Riches without an income 🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity 🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution! 🪶 How to share even when you're a scoundrel only child like me 🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away 🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Linda's books The Quiet Revolution [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/the-quiet-revolution/] (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life) Eat My Shadow [https://www.togetherpress.com.au/product/eat-my-shadow-pb/] (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!) Living the Good Life [https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/books/living-the-good-life-by-linda-cockburn/9781740663120] Linda's articles in Organic Gardener magazine [https://www.organicgardener.com.au/author/linda-cockburn/] A kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving Superpowers [https://greenagenda.org.au/2024/06/my-planet-saving-superpowers/] Linda on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/_the_quiet_revolution_/] The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann [https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-last-hours-of-ancient-sunlight-9781742747323] Seed Freaks [https://seedfreaks.com.au/] ~ open pollinated seeds Tasmania David Holmgren's RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter's Guide to a Resilient Future [https://retrosuburbia.com/] Sound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns [https://freesound.org/s/321466/] License: Attribution 4.0 🧡🧡🧡 support Reskillience on Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/Reskillience] (plz don't use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡🧡🧡