Tag: inequality
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“Without expectation of return”: a glimpse of giving in the Amazon
In the opera house in Manaus, Brazil there’s an organ, gifted from the US in the early 1990s. The instrument sits in the lobby, cordoned off and unused – because no-one in Manaus knows how to either play or maintain it. Maybe you could forgive the Americans for their poor choice of gift. Because, although…
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The gift of rest
The more you do, the more difference you can make. Or so it seems, in a world that prizes productivity. How could it not be true, when every conference, every campaign, every keynote speaker tells us we must take action, urgently? It’s counter-intuitive, then, to do less in an effort to make the world a…
